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Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov (1995, Paperback)
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Author: Varlam Shalamov
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Publication Date: 1995-02-01
Series: Twentieth-Century Classics
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0140186956
ISBN-13: 9780140186956
Product ID: EPID52537
Description: This edition combines two volumes previously published separately as "Kolyma Tales" and "Graphite." The author depicts the world of the Siberian labor camps where he spent over 17 years.
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A Fantastic Memoir of Stalin's Horrible Gulag!! Awesome
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I could not sleep for many nights after reading this book. It is a classic look at life in the Arctic death camps of the Gulag. Scary, horrible, and so terribly sad and though it claims to be a 'Novel' it is based on facts from real experiences by Shalamov and those who suffered the same fate as him. An incredible and insightful book that you will never forget! God bless those poor souls who passed through Stalin's miserable Gulag and labor camps. May they never be forgotten and their stories live on in the hearts of those of us who read their stories. Awesome stuff.
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) All utopians (i.e., most young people) who long for socialism and who did not live through the Cold War must read Kolyma Tales. These historical short stories complement Solzhyentsyn's non-fictional "Gulag Archipelago." One wonders which was worse: Stalin's USSR or Hitler's Reich. Written by a survivor of the slave labor camps in the gold mines of far northeastern Siberia (opposite Alaska), the stories are moving, entertaining, and chilling. Wear a heavy sweater.
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