Anna Aslanyan

The brutality of the Gulag was totally dehumanising

First published in 1947, Julius Margolin’s account of the labour camps provides one of the most vivid insights we have into the horrors of Stalinism

Prisoners of the Soviet Gulag. Credit: Alamy
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  • Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag

    Julius Margolin, translated by Stefani Hoffman

    OUP, pp. 640, £30

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