Journey into the Whirlwind - Softcover

Ginzburg, Eugenia Semyonovna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156465094 ISBN 13: 9780156465090

Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975

Synopsis

Both witness to and victim of Stalin’s reign of terror, a courageous woman tells the story of her harrowing eighteen-year odyssey through Russia’s prisons and labor camps. Translated by Paul Stevenson and Max Hayward. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

About this title

About the Author:

At the time of Kirov's murder, Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg was 27 years old, a happily married mother of three children, a loyal party member, and a schoolteacher and journalist in Kazan in eastern Russia. At that time, also, there was published a four-volume History of the All-Union Communist Party, which, in its coverage of the 1905 Czarist terrors, displeased Stalin; it contained certain "errors" in connection with the theory of permanent revolution. Professor Nikolai Naumovich Elvov, who had written the offending passage, also happened to be the author of a source book on Tartar history. Incredibly, Mrs. Ginzburg was arrested and denounced as a Trotskyite and counter-revolutionary because she had failed to write a review for her publication denouncing Elvov's Tartar book. In short, the masters of a Brechtian netherworld of logical non-reason accused her of not doing something she had not done―and of course she could not deny not doing it.

Language Notes:

Text: English, Russian (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0156465094
• ISBN 13: 9780156465090
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432