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Death Revealed. Alexander V. Gorbatov, 81, the Soviet army general who was arrested during the Stalin purge of 1938, sentenced to 15 years in the icy Kolyma concentration camp but later "rehabilitated" to fight the Nazis; in Moscow. Gorbatov joined the army and fought successfully in the civil war, rising to command a cavalry regiment. Following his arrest for "liberalism," along with many other army leaders, he refused to sign a false confession even after being tortured. Reinstated in 1941, he eventually commanded the Third Army in its march on Berlin...
...story's narrator purports to be a ditchdigger in the Kolyma River forced-labor camp, which has been almost empty since a recent amnesty-"only some 10,000 of us, dangerous criminals, were left." With bitter irony, he professes to have flushed the torn-up manuscript of his book down the toilet. It was recovered and pieced together only through the diligence and ingenuity of Tolya and Vitya, two secret policemen, members of "the dread invisible army," who have invented a special sewer-searching technique for screening the citizenry's most private acts...
...figure. Mad with rage when his wife brutally tells him of this, Globov smashes everything in their apartment-only one birthday present, a bust of "The One." "The Master" (i.e., Stalin), being miraculously preserved. In revenge, Globov sends a doctor he suspects of having performed the abortion to the Kolyma River forced-labor camp. Actually, in a satirical parallel to the "Doctors' Plot," Rabinovich is innocent...
...time of the mass purges during the 1930s and begins with an angry rhapsody to all those who suffered death, punishment and exile. The hero, a Ukrainian Cossack named Hryhory Mnohohrishny, has been sentenced as "an enemy of the State" to 25 years at the slave-labor camp at Kolyma on the frozen Sea of Okhotsk. Now he is one of thousands of prisoners jammed into a 60-car convict train rolling across Siberia to the camp. As a counterpoint to the doomed men in the cattle cars, Author Bahriany describes the comforts of another train, also bound east, which...
Hryhory makes his escape at the last Siberian station before the prisoners are transferred to boats for the voyage to Kolyma. He plunges south into the taiga, the vast, swampy forest that stretches along the Manchurian border. After six days of flight, during which he has only a handful of nuts for food, Hryhory is still powerful enough to stab a bear to death and rescue Natalka Sirko, the daughter of a family of hunters. The remainder of the book is largely a hymn to the free life of the Sirko family, whose elemental existence is wondrously untouched...