- Summary
- In 1941 Janusz Bardach's death sentence was commuted to ten years' hard labor and he was sent to Kolyma - the harshest, coldest, and most deadly prison in Joseph Stalin's labor camp system - the Siberia of Siberias. The only English-language memoir since the fall of communism to chronicle the atrocities committed during the Stalinist regime, Bardach's gripping testimony explores the darkest corners of the human condition at the same time that it documents the tyranny of Stalin's reign, equal only to that of Hitler.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Bardach, Janusz.
- Published
- Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [1998]
©1998
- Locale
- Russia (Federation)
Kolyma Mountains Region
Kolyma Mountains Region (Russia)
Sowjetunion
Kolyma-Gebiet
- Contents
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Prologue
September 1939
Witness
Red Army soldier
Court-martial
Cattle car
Retribution
Burepolom
Siberian trail
Buchta nakhodka
Slave ship
Welcome to Kolyma
The isolator
Winter
Kolyma Highway
Central Hospital
Tuberculosis patients
Antechamber to the morgue
Psychiatric ward
Letters
Free, but not home.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Gleeson, Kathleen.
- Notes
-
Prologue -- September 1939 -- Witness -- Red Army soldier -- Court-martial -- Cattle car -- Retribution -- Burepolom -- Siberian trail -- Buchta nakhodka -- Slave ship -- Welcome to Kolyma -- The isolator -- Winter -- Kolyma Highway -- Central Hospital -- Tuberculosis patients -- Antechamber to the morgue -- Psychiatric ward -- Letters -- Free, but not home.
