Journey into the Whirlwind by Evgenia Semenova Ginzburg (English) Paperback Book

Description: Journey into the Whirlwind by Evgenia Semenova Ginzburg Journey into the Whirlwind is Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburgs courageous memoir of her harrowing eighteen-year odyssey through the Soviet Unions prisons and labor camps. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Journey into the Whirlwind is Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburgs courageous memoir of her harrowing eighteen-year odyssey through the Soviet Unions 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. Yet like millions of others who suffered during Stalins 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 Stalins regime."Stands side by side with Nadezhda Mandelstams memoirs and Solzhenitsyns 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 Author Biography By the late 1930s, Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg (1896-1977) had been a loyal and very active member of the Communist Party for many years. Yet like the millions of others who suffered during Stalins reign of terror, she was arrested (on trumped-up charges of being a Trotskyist terrorist counter-revolutionary) and sentenced to prison. With an amazing eye for detail and 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. Review Quote In 1989, the Sovremmenik Theatre in Moscow brought Eugenia Ginzburgs autobiography to the stage for the first time. When the curtain came down an emotional audience rose up and applauded for twenty-four minutes. The tragedy of an entire nation had finally been dramatized in one womans poignant account. 1937, the year that Eugenia Ginzburg was arrested and falsely charged as a Trotskyist terrorist counterrevolutionary, was only the beginning of Stalins purges. Nearly six million people were arrested on trumped up charges, and millions were executed or perished in prisons and camps. Eugenia Ginzburg, an historian and loyal Communist Party member, chronicles her own terrifying arrest, interrogation, and eighteen-year imprisonment. She speaks with brutal honesty; her ability to recount the minutes and hours of her internment is surpassed only by her extraordinary will to survive. These memoirs are important for those who wish to understand Russian history and for anyone who has ever wondered how they might survive in a maelstrom, facing constant betrayals, overwhelming physical hardship, agonizing loneliness, and a longing for the past. Eugenia Ginzburg shows us "how thin the line is between high principles and blinkered intolerance" and yet she emerges from these pages as a compassionate woman with the "conviction that dignity and honor are not just empty words." -- For great reviews of books for girls, check out Lets Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14. -- From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Rebecca Sullivan Details ISBN0156027518 Short Title JOURNEY INTO THE WHIRLWIND Pages 432 Publisher Harvest Books Series Helen and Kurt Wolff Books Language English Translator Paul Stevenson ISBN-10 0156027518 ISBN-13 9780156027519 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2002 Imprint Harvest Books Country of Publication United States Edition 1st DOI 10.1604/9780156027519 AU Release Date 2002-11-04 NZ Release Date 2002-11-04 US Release Date 2002-11-04 UK Release Date 2002-11-04 Author Evgenia Semenova Ginzburg Publication Date 2002-11-04 DEWEY 301 Audience General Imprint US Mariner Books Publisher US HarperCollins We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:158785848;

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