Just Send Me Word

A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag

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Orlando Figes

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The extraordinary true story of the triumph of love over repression in Stalin's Russia Almost everything we know about the terrible experience of the Gulag has been based on survivor memoirs, in many cases written decades later. For obvious reasons there is very little authentic, contemporary material. Just Send Me Word is a uniquely powerful and moving experience. It is the story of the relationship between Lev and Sveta, two young Muscovites who were separated first by the Second World War (in which Lev went missing) and then by the Gulag, where the Soviet state sent Lev for ten years on absurd and arbitrary charges. Extraordinarily, during Lev's long exile in an Arctic camp they were able to smuggle letters to each other and even meet. Both sides of the entire correspondence have survived and these letters (of which there are some 1,500) form a detailed, highly articulate and agonizing account of life in Stalin's Soviet Union. They are also a testament to human constancy under impossible circumstances - a love story like no other.

Author Biography:

'The great storyteller of modern Russian historians' Financial Times Orlando Figes was granted exclusive access to the thousands of letters between Lev and Sveta that form the foundation of Just Send Me Word, and he was able to interview the couple in person, then in their nineties. These real-time and largely uncensored letters form the largest cache of Gulag letters ever found. Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of Peasant Russia, Civil War, A People's Tragedy, Natasha's Dance, The Whisperers and Crimea. He lives in Cambridge and London. His books have been translated into over twenty languages.

Release date Australia

January 3rd, 2013

Author

Orlando Figes

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

352

Dimensions

133x199x21

ISBN-13

9780241955901

Product ID

20718192

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