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Book Synopsis Caught up in one of the many purges that swept the Soviet Union during the Great Terror, Leonid Petrovich Bolotov (1906-1987) was one of 86 engineers arrested at Leningrad''s Red Triangle Rubber Factory and sent to the Gulag as enemies of the people. He would be the only one to survive and return to his family after enduring two decades in the infamous Kolyma labor camps.
Translated into English and published here for the first time, Bolotov''s memoir narrates with growing intensity his arrest, imprisonment and interrogation, his confession and trial, his exile to hard labor in Arctic Siberia, and his rehabilitation in 1956 following the official end of Stalin''s personality cult.
Table of Contents
- Translator-Editor's Acknowledgments
- Translator-Editor's Preface
- Translator-Editor's Introduction
- Part I: Defeat of the Working Family
- 1. My Arrest
- 2. Shpalernaia Prison
- 3. My Interrogation
- 4. Pruss and Aleksandrov
- 5.The Sailor
- 6. The Pilot
- 7. I'm Held in Captivity
- 8. The Hundredth Prisoner
- 9. My 60th Day in Prison
- 10. My Stay in Two Prisons
- 11. The Night Before the Trial
- 12. The Trial
- 13. I Meet My Convicted Friends
- 14. Second Transit Prison for Men
- 15. The Train: Leningrad to Vladivostok
- 16. Vladivostok Transit Camp
- 17. Behind Barbed Wire
- 18. Kulu
- Part II: My Stay and Work in Kolyma
- 19. From Magadan to the Taiga
- 20. The New Power
- 21. Baptism of Fire
- 22. Panning Season
- 23. Music While We Worked
- 24. My Father's Letter
- 25. My Search for Firewood
- 26. My Broken Leg
- 27. My New Friends
- 28. The Competition
- 29. World War II in the Gold Mine
- 30. The Cave-In
- 31. The Unexpected Meetings
- 32. Investigator Kulakov
- 33. The New Accusation
- 34. Jail
- 35. Brevda's Story
- 36. My Last Judgment
- 37. The Finnish Shingles
- 38. Glass Factory
- 39. Young Thieves
- 40. Katia Maksakov's Story
- 41. Ivan Zelenin's Story
- 42. Our Raskolnikov
- 43. The Blue-Eyed Blonde
- 44. Bears and Berries
- 45. Special Camp 5
- 46. A New Order
- 47. Freedom with Restrictions
- 48. Dishwashing
- 49. The Family Cares
- 50. Nina's Arrival
- 51. Nina's Arrest
- 52. Tomsk's Jail
- 53. Nina's Release and Meeting with Children
- 54. The First Thawed Patch
- 55. In Leningrad
- 56. Our New Lives Begin
- Translator-Editor's Afterword
- Glossary
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Index
