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...Brief Glow. The horrors of Beria's camps and inquisitions have been told by David Dallin and Boris Nicolaevsky, by Victor Kravchenko and Vladimir Tchernavin. These atrocities are so vast that, like Himmler's corpse factories, they are almost unbelievable. Meanwhile, a smaller, gentler story gives a notion of life in the police state...
...fact of slavery in the Soviet Union is not news; its literature is extensive.*Author Dallin (CoAuthor Nicolaevsky contributed only one chapter to this book) lists a bibliography of ten packed pages on the subject, including Vladimir Tchernavin's unforgettable I Speak for the Silent Prisoners of the Soviet (Hale, Cushman & Flint, Boston, 1935). But until now, most of the slave-camp exposes consisted of narratives of personal experience and scattered corroboration drawn from between-the-lines interpretations of official documents. What Author Dallin has done is to bring all of this material together in a thoroughly documented volume...
...attempt is made to alter or conceal the authoress's feelings. Madame Tchernavin presents herself as a welleducated, middle-aged lady who loves two things: her family, consisting of her husband and young son, and her interest in art and literature. Both of those are crushed by the OGPU for no apparent reason, yet so complete is the crushing that Madame Tchernavin's feelings are rather of dull despair and fear than active hate...
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