Word: tulayev
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...first book to explore the camps or dig into the new subcellars that were constructed under the Lower Depths. It occupies a place on the same shelf as Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, Victor Serge's The Case of Comrade Tulayev, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and Lydia Chukovskaya's The Deserted House, another homefront view of the purges recently published in the U.S. But since Mrs. Ginzburg's book is a work of nonfiction, an intensely personal and passionately felt document...
...Burned Bramble belongs in the select company of those novels which have best explained why and how the good Communists become dead ones (others : Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, Victor Serge's The Case of Comrade Tulayev). It is the work of Manes Sperber, a slight, talkative ex-professor of psychology in German universities, who now lives in Paris. Like many a Communist intellectual, he had a blind spot for Stalin's big lie until the Moscow trials of old Communist heroes. In 1937 he broke with the party...
...most fascinating novels of the year was Victor Serge's The Case of Comrade Tulayev, a chilling account of inhuman Soviet bureaucracy by a man who knew it well. U.S. readers left it virtually unnoticed in their rush to make a bestseller of a fat Finnish historical pudding, The Adventurer, by Mika Waltari, author of last year's bestselling The Egyptian...
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