The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard by Ivan Chistyakov

The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard

Ivan Chistyakov with Arch Tait (Translator)

288 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography history dark reflective slow-paced
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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...

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