Journey into the Whirlwind

by Ginzburg, Eugenia Semyonovna

• ISBN13: 9780156027519
• ISBN10: 0156027518
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Houghton Miff

Summary

Both witness to and victim of Stalin's reign of terror, a courageous woman tells the story of her harrowing eighteen-year odyssey through Russia's prisons and labor camps. Translated by Paul Stevenson and Max Hayward. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Table of Contents

A telephone call at dawn	p. 3
The red-haired professor	p. 5
Prelude	p. 9
The snowball	p. 13
There's no one so silly as a clever man	p. 20
My last year	p. 24
Life counted in minutes	p. 30
The year 1937 begins	p. 35
Expelled from the Party	p. 39
That day	p. 41
Captain Vevers	p. 48
The cellars at "Black Lake"	p. 52
The investigators have conclusive evidence	p. 60
Stick and carrot	p. 64
The walls come to life	p. 70
"Can you forgive me?"	p. 76
The "conveyor belt"	p. 83
Confrontations	p. 88
Parting	p. 98
New encounters	p. 100
Orphans twice over	p. 114
Tukhachevsky and others	p. 120
To Moscow	p. 128
Transfer	p. 132
Introduction to Butyrki	p. 141
The whole of the Comintern	p. 151
Butyrki nights	p. 157
In accordance with the law of December 1st	p. 162
"A fair and speedy trial"	p. 169
Penal servitude--what bliss!	p. 175
The Pugachev Tower	p. 180
The Stolypin coach	p. 188
Five steps by three	p. 193
Major Weinstock's twenty-two commandments	p. 200
Bright nights and dark days	p. 203
Captain Glan's dog	p. 209
The underground punishment cell	p. 215
Comunista Italiana	p. 221
"Next year in Jerusalem"	p. 226
Day after day, month after month	p. 231
A breath of oxygen	p. 236
A fire in prison	p. 240
Punishment cell for the second time	p. 243
Memories of Giordano Bruno	p. 247
The end of the "monstrous dwarf"	p. 250
Great expectations	p. 257
A bathhouse! Just an ordinary bathhouse!	p. 263
The ruins of Schlusselburg	p. 267
Car Number 7	p. 273
All sorts to make a world	p. 279
The transit camp	p. 331
The S.S. Dzhurma	p. 351
No luck today, my lady Death!	p. 360
Light work	p. 370
Elgen is the Yakut word for "dead"	p. 395
Free felling	p. 403
Salvation from heaven	p. 409
Epilogue	p. 417
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