Description
Book Synopsis Aryeh Malkish, a Ukrainian Jew, was an engineering student in Ryazan when the KGB arrested him in 1969 for organizing a group of political dissidents. He was sent to the gulag for seven years, where Ukrainians accounted for nearly half of Russia''s millions of political prisoners. Originally published in 1978, his trenchant memoir vividly describes life in a Soviet labor camp, where disfiguring pathologies flourished in an atmosphere of unrelenting suspicion and cruelty and intrenched antisemitism.
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Foreword: Of Past and Future
- Preface
- Change of destination
- Hidden light
- A day in the cell
- Domovoy (the poltergeist)
- Rest
- Toes the line
- The camp
- A Brahmin in solitary
- Jews in the camp
- The operating methods of the KGB
- Prisoners' pathologies
- Corruption
- The liberators are coming!
- Divide and rule
- The slave mentality
- The surprise
- The Jewish "conspiracy"
- Nixon to you!
- A new man
- The big transfer from Mordovia to the Urals
- The ship of fools
- Back to the wire
- Minus 54º Centigrade
- The kidnapped spring
- A white cockroach
- Two months in solitary
- The usual way
- The cell is flooded
- Triangle
- Criminal-political
- A Chinese meal
- News of the imprisonment
- "I'd like to die"
- Working flesh
- The monastery of silence
- Jacob and the cannibal
- The dam burst
- The whirlpool of terror
- Gog and Magog
- A violent departure
- The Urals again
- Toward the exodus
- Index
