O relato circulou em samizdat antes de sair no exterior. A segunda parte, “Dentro do redemoinho”, cobre os anos seguintes no campo e a vida em exílio em Magadan até a reabilitação, em 1955.
Journey into the Whirlwind
The memoir of a teacher and communist from Kazan arrested in 1937, at the height of the Great Terror, and sentenced to ten years, from interrogation to the first years of labour in Kolyma.
See also
Whole library
MG-00021937Official documentNKVD Operational Order No. 00447
The order that opened the “kulak operation”: regional arrest quotas, summary trials by troikas and two sentence categories, execution or 8 to 10 years in the camps.
MG-00061978BookKolyma Tales
A cycle of short stories about the seventeen years the author spent in the camps, most of them in the gold mines of Kolyma, in the far north-east of Siberia.
MG-00011919Official document