Overgrown thugs and clueless groupies

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Journey Into the Whirlwind

by Evgenii︠a︡ Ginzburg

"Witness and victim of Stalin's reign of terror, a courageous woman tells the full story of her harrowing eighteen-year odyssey through Russia's prisons and labor …
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Forever Flowing

by VasiliÄ­ Semenovich Grossman

The novel tells the story of Ivan Grigoryevich, who has returned to Russia after thirty years in the Gulag. After short and unsatisfying visits to …
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Kolyma Tales

by Varlam Shalamov

It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent …
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Fear No Evil

by Natan Sharansky

The prison memoirs of the Soviet dissident and Jewish activist relate the harrowing events of his nine years in KGB custody, from interrogation to release.
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Wild Swans

by Jung Chang

Memoir of three Chinese women, Jung Chang, her mother, and her grandmother in twentieth-century China.
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Son of the Revolution

by Liang Heng

An autobiography of a young Chinese man whose childhood and adolescence were spent in Mao's China during the Cultural Revolution.
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