Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Gulag Letters

Gulag Letters

Formakov, Arsenii
Johnson, Emily D.

Hardcover

Series: Yale-Hoover Authoritarian Regimes

Letters & EssaysGeneral World HistoryRussian History

ISBN10: 0300209312
ISBN13: 9780300209310
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published: Jun 20 2017
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.27
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
A poignant collection of letters written by the Latvian poet, novelist, and newspaper editor Arsenii Formakov while interned in Soviet labor camps

Emily Johnson has translated and edited a fascinating collection of letters written by Arsenii Formakov, a Latvian Russian poet, novelist, and journalist, during two terms in Soviet labor camps, 1940 to 1947 in Kraslag and 1949 to 1955 in Kamyshlag and Ozerlag. This correspondence, which Formakov mailed home to his family in Riga, provides readers with a firsthand account of the workings of the Soviet penal system and testifies to the hardships of daily life for Latvian prisoners in the Gulag.

Also in

Letters & Essays

View All