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  • The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard

    by Ivan Chistyakov ...
    Translated by The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard Arch Tait ...
    In the archives of the Memorial International Human Rights Centre in Moscow is an extraordinary diary, a rare first-person testimony of a commander of guards in a Soviet labour camp.Ivan Chistyakov was sent to the Gulag in 1935, where he worked at the Baikal-Amur Corrective Labour Camp for over a year. Life at the Gulag was anathema to Chistyakov, a cultured Muscovite with a nostalgia for pre ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • The Russian Revolution

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  • The House of the Dead

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  • Cuz

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  • My Fellow Prisoners

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  • What Is to Be Done?

    by Nikolai Chernyshevsky ...
    Translated by Michael R. Katz ...
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  • Miss Palmer's Diary

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    In 1847, seventeen-year-old Miss Ellen Palmer had the world at her feet. A debutante at the start of her first London season, Ellen was beautiful, rich and accomplished and about to experience the world of dances, opera visits and dinner parties which were a rite-of-passage for young women of her class. To record the glittering whirl of activity, Ellen started writing a diary, a unique daily ... Read more

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