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Journey into the Whirlwind is the English title of the memoir by Eugenia Ginzburg. It was published in English in 1967, some thirty years after the story begins. The two-part book is a highly detailed first-hand account of her life and imprisonment in the Soviet Union during the rule of Joseph Stalin in the 1930s.
- Yevgenia Ginzburg
- 1967
A memoir of Eugenia Ginzburg's imprisonment in Stalin's Russia, divided into two parts: her arrest, trial, and solitary confinement, and her deportation to Kolyma, a Siberian Gulag. Learn about the themes, characters, literary devices, and historical context of this classic work of Soviet literature.
- Yevgenia Ginzburg
- 1967
Nov 4, 2002 · Eugenia Ginzburg's critically acclaimed memoir of the harrowing eighteen years she spent in prisons and labor camps under Stalin's rule. 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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Journey into the Whirlwind is a memoir by Eugenia Ginzburg, a Russian author and historian who was imprisoned for 18 years in the Soviet Gulag system. The book was first published in 1967 and chronicles the author's arrest and imprisonment during Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge in the Soviet Union.
Nov 4, 2002 · 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.
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- Yevgenia Ginzburg
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- Mariner Books
Aug 20, 2019 · Journey into the whirlwind. by. Ginzburg, Evgenii͡a Semenovna. Publication date. 1967. Topics. Political prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Biography, Soviet Union -- Social conditions. Publisher. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World.
Nov 4, 2002 · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Nov 4, 2002 - History - 432 pages. A woman’s true account of eighteen years as a Soviet prisoner: “Not even Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan...
