Title Journey into the land of the Zeks and back : a memoir of the Gulag / Julius Margolin ; translated by Stefani Hoffman ; foreword by Timothy Snyder ; introduction by Katherine R. Jolluck.

Publication Info.

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department	947.084 MARGOLIN	Check Shelf

Description	lxii, 578 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents	Journey into the land of the Zeks and back -- The road to the West.
Summary	"Journey to the Land of the Zek and Back is a vivid, first-person account of life in the Soviet Gulag, a work that has never appeared in full before in English. It was one of the earliest published accounts of the Soviet camp system when it was published in France in 1949 and became an established classic in the Russian-speaking world, influencing the formation of the genre of Gulag memoirs"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Convict labor -- Soviet Union.
	Political prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
	Penal colonies -- Soviet Union.
	Political persecution -- Soviet Union.
	Convict labor. (OCoLC)fst00877301
	Penal colonies. (OCoLC)fst01056803
	Political persecution. (OCoLC)fst01069448
	Political prisoners. (OCoLC)fst01069636
	Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
Genre/Form	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Added Author	Hoffman, Stefani, translator.
	Jolluck, Katherine R., writer of introduction.
	Snyder, Timothy, writer of foreword.
	Container of (expression): Margolin, I︠U︡liĭ, 1900-1971. Doroga na Zapad. English.
Added Title	Puteshestvie v stranu Zėka. English
	Road to the West.
Other Form:	Online version: Margolin, Julius, Journey into the land of the zeks and back New York : Oxford University Press, 2020. 9780197502167 (DLC) 2020020757
ISBN	9780197502143 hardcover
	0197502148 hardcover
	9780197502167 electronic publication
	9780197502150 electronic book

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