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Journey Into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg

Journey Into the Whirlwind

Eugenia Ginzburg

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · November 4, 2002

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Who it’s for
A vividly detailed memoir brings the human scale of Stalin-era imprisonment into view.
Themes
Political repression under Stalin, Imprisonment and forced labor, Survival
Genres
Soviet-Era Russia, Personal Memoirs, Political Lives

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About this book

Journey into the Whirlwind is Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg's courageous memoir of her harrowing eighteen-year odyssey through the Soviet Union's prisons and labor camps. By the late 1930s, Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg had been a loyal and very active member of the Communist Party for many years.

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Yet like millions of others who suffered during Stalin's reign of terror, she was arrested—on trumped-up charges of being a Trotskyist terrorist and counter-revolutionary—and sentenced to prison. With an amazing eye for detail, profound strength, and an indefatigable spirit, Ginzburg recounts the years, days, and minutes she endured in prisons and labor camps, including two years of solitary confinement. A classic account of survival, Journey into the Whirlwind is considered one of the most important documents of Stalin's regime. "Stands side by side with Nadezhda Mandelstam's memoirs and Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago."—Hannah Arendt, author of The Origins of Totalitarianism "An intensely personal and passionately felt document in which every syllable clangors with awful authenticity."—Time

History at Close Range

A vividly detailed memoir brings the human scale of Stalin-era imprisonment into view.

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  • A firsthand account of survival through Soviet prisons and labor camps
  • Personal testimony that also carries historical weight

Expect

  • Close attention to years, days, and minutes of confinement
  • An account that includes two years of solitary confinement

Where it sits

Personal Memoirs63%
Soviet-Era Russia44%
Political Lives25%

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Authors
Eugenia Ginzburg
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
November 4, 2002
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Political repression under Stalin · Imprisonment and forced labor · Survival
Reading lane
Lives in History