True Stories: The Memories of Lev Razgon

by Lev Emmanuilovich Razgon

Book Overview

This gripping memoir portrays the Stalinist terror of 1937 through the eyes of journalist Lev Razgon, who endured two incarcerations in the Gulag and wrote this account upon his release seventeen... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087501108X
• ISBN13: 9780875011080
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Ardis Publishers
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Another Great Memoir About Stalin's Gulag...Amazing Story!

This book is yet another wonderful, though terribly sad collection of vignettes about the author and his life in the Gulag. His writing is beautiful, even poetic and forgiving at times, then angry and frustrated in other parts. His is an honest, straightforward memoir about an awful period in Russian's cold and cruel history. You will never forget the people you meet in this book, and Lev Razgon will amaze and inspire you.

A quirky but valuable memoir of the gulag

Lev Razgon has not written just another account of train rides, hunger, and interrogations. Rather, in a series of vignettes, he explores the political culture both of the Soviet gulag and of the Stalinist era as a whole. While some of these can be precious, and all require a reasonable knowledge of Soviet history (better annotation would have been useful), Razgon provides one of the last first-hand accounts of the prison culture--on both sides of the wire--in the Soviet Union.