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Title: Journey into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg, Paul Stevenson, Max Hayward ISBN: 0-15-602751-8 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.77 (22 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Unimaginable evil of communism.
Comment: Eugenia Ginzburg, a highly educated and patriotic communist in 1930's Soviet Union, was falsely accused on a preposterous charge of counter-revolutionary terrorism and sentenced to ten years imprisonment that included horrible periods of solitary confinement and eventually labor in the infamous Siberian gulag archipelago made famous by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The utter senselessness, depravity, and human waste of these years are almost impossible to imagine, but Ginzburg's intricate descriptions of interrogation, prison life, and Siberian work camps make the reader shudder with bone-chilling cold and despair. This book should be forced reading for apologists of communism and the old Soviet Union. It eloquently, but shockingly, makes obvious why tyrannical power (in this case, Josef Stalin) is humankind's greatest evil and, without intending to do so, explains why (now) Russia is a nation tormented by its past and struggling to find a respectable path for its future. This book is not, however, a political commentary. It is at its core a heart-wrenching account of a very courageous woman who lost her husband, children, citizenship, and freedom to the paranoia and criminal evil of Stalin and communism. Throughout Ginzburg's tale, though, shines her indefatigable spirit. I read this book in only three sittings and the only complaint I had was its abrupt ending in the middle of her confinement. Ginzburg takes up the rest of her story in "Within the Whirlwind," which really should be volume two of this novel
Rating: 5
Summary: A must read
Comment: Amazing book, recounting the horrors of "an honest Communist" who suffered under Stalin's repression. Ginzburg describes the 18 years she spent in prison and in work camps, from Kazan to Yaroslavl to Kolyma. A must read for those who want to understand the Stalinist period and the legacy of suffering that lingers in Siberia.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book, but please don't misinterpret... read it closely
Comment: This is a response to the review "UNIMAGINABLE EVIL OF COMMUNISM" and the reviewer's blatant ignorance, condemning "apologists of communism." Apparantly this reviewer knows nothing at all about communism, nor what it is. The whole point is that true communism was never tried in the Soviet Union. To force everything evil done in the Soviet Union under the blanket of communism is irresponsible, rather foolish, and just plain false. A close reading of this book will bring forth Ginzburg's true feelings about communism, which will surprise you given the hardships she suffered... which makes me question whether that reviewer read the book at all.
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Title: Within the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg, Ian Boland ISBN: 0156976498 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 20 October, 1982 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Kolyma Tales (Combined Two-Volume Edition) by Varlam Shalamov, John Glad ISBN: 0140186956 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag by Janusz Bardach, Kathleen Gleeson, Adam Hochschild ISBN: 0520221524 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi ISBN: 0684826801 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: A Life of Her Own: The Transformation of a Countrywoman in Twentieth-Century France by Emilie Carles, Robert Destanque, Avriel H. Goldberger ISBN: 0140169652 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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