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Both witness to and victim of Stalin’s reign of terror, a courageous woman tells the story of her harrowing eighteen-year odyssey through Russia’s prisons and labor camps. Translated by Paul Stevenson and Max Hayward. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

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The year 1937 began, to all intents and purposes, at the end of 1934-to be exact, on the first of December.

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  1. Eugenia Semenovna Ginzburg (Author)
  2. Paul Stevenson (Translator)
  3. Max Hayward (Translator)

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