Into the Whirlwind
- ISBN-10
- 1860466532
- ISBN-13
- 9781860466533
- Category
- Political prisoneers
- Pages
- 331
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Harvill Press
- Author
- Evgeniı̆ Ginzburg
Description
The story of Eugenia Ginzburg, a model communist, a teacher and journalist, this text gives an account of how in 1937 she was expelled from the Party and arrested having been falsely accused of belonging to secret terrorist organization. It describes how she was separated from her family, spent two years in the infamous Butyrki prison, then to prisons of Lefort and Yaroslavl and then how she was deported to hard labour camp in Siberia in 1939. She was never to see her husband or elder son again and was not released until1955. This book is her personal account of all these events.
