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Text: English, Polish (translation)

Hardcover. Scratch on rear cover else Very Good Plus condition. SIGNED by the translator Astrida S. Bertleson.

In 1948, the "find", discovered by Russian soldiers in Anna and Arnolds Vilerts' apartment, was a religious poster. Banned under the U.S.S.R. anti-religious policy, the poster became the basis for counterrevolutionary charges against the Vilertses. Separated from their young child,Anna and Arnolds were tried and exiled to separate prison camps in the inhospitable Siberian Gulag. Dr. Vilerts' memoirs reveal the spirit of the Baltic people and the Communist policy of the U.S.S.R. under which they lived. It is a story of miraculous survival, compassion, and love.

This insightful volume offers a radical reassessment of the infamous “Gulag Archipelago” by exploring the history of Vorkuta, an arctic coal-mining outpost originally established in the 1930s as a prison camp complex. Author Alan Barenberg’s eye-opening study reveals Vorkuta as an active urban center with a substantial nonprisoner population where the borders separating camp and city were contested and permeable, enabling prisoners to establish social connections that would eventually aid them in their transitions to civilian life. With this book, Barenberg makes an important historical contribution to our understanding of forced labor in the Soviet Union and its enduring legacy.