The Day Will Pass Away: The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard: 1935-1936 by Ivan Chistyakov

The Day Will Pass Away: The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard: 1935-1936

Ivan Chistyakov with Arch Tait

288 pages • first pub 1936 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography history dark reflective slow-paced
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Originally written in a couple of humble exercise books, which were anonymously donated to the Memorial Human Rights Centre in Moscow, this remarkable diary is one of the few first-person accounts to survive the sprawling Soviet prison system.At t...

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