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Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag
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Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag Hardcover - 2012

by Figes, Orlando


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A heroic love story and an unprecedented inside view of one of Stalin's most notorious labor camps, based on a remarkable cache of letters smuggled in and out of the Gulag

"I went to get the letters for our friends, and couldn't help but feel a little envious, I didn't expect anything for myself. And suddenly there was my name, and, as if it was alive, your handwriting."

In 1946, after five years as a prisoner first as a Soviet POW in Nazi concentration camps, then as a deportee (falsely accused of treason) in the Arctic Gulag twenty-nine-year-old Lev Mishchenko unexpectedly received a letter from Sveta, the sweetheart he had hardly dared hope was still alive. Amazingly, over the next eight years the lovers managed to exchange more than 1,500 messages, and even to smuggle Sveta herself into the camp for secret meetings. Their recently discovered correspondence is the only known real-time record of life in Stalin's Gulag, unmediated and uncensored.

Orlando Figes, "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians" ("Financial Times"), draws on Lev and Sveta's letters as well as KGB archives and recent interviews to brilliantly reconstruct the broader world in which their story unfolded. With the powerful narrative drive of a novel, "Just Send Me Word" reveals a passion and endurance that triumphed over the tragic forces of history."

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  • Title Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag
  • Author Figes, Orlando
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 333
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Metropolitan Books, New York
  • Date 2012-05
  • ISBN 9780805095227

About the author

Orlando Figes is the author of "The Crimean War," "The Whisperers," "Natasha's Dance," and "A People's Tragedy," which have been translated into more than twenty languages. The recipient of the Wolfson History Prize and the "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize, among others, Figes is a professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London.

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