Journey Into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag by Julius Margolin

Journey Into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag

Julius Margolin with Katherine R. Jolluck (Contributor), Timothy Snyder (Contributor), Stefani Hoffman (Translator)

648 pages 2020

3 editions

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Under the Soviet regime, millions of zeks (prisoners) were incarcerated in the forced labor camps, the Gulag. There many died of starvation, disease, and exhaustion, and some were killed by criminals and camp guards. In 1939, as the Nazis and Sovi...

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