Journey into the land of the Zeks and back : a memoir of the Gulag /

Margolin, I︠U︡liĭ, 1900-1971,

Journey into the land of the Zeks and back : a memoir of the Gulag / Julius Margolin ; translated by Stefani Hoffman ; foreword by Timothy Snyder ; introduction by Katherine R. Jolluck. - lxii, 578 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

Journey into the land of the Zeks and back -- The road to the West.

"Journey to the Land of the Zek and Back is a vivid, first-person account of life in the Soviet Gulag, a work that has never appeared in full before in English. It was one of the earliest published accounts of the Soviet camp system when it was published in France in 1949 and became an established classic in the Russian-speaking world, influencing the formation of the genre of Gulag memoirs"--

9780197502143 0197502148

2020020756


Convict labor--Soviet Union.
Political prisoners--Soviet Union--Biography.
Penal colonies--Soviet Union.
Political persecution--Soviet Union.

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