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Varlam Shalamov. Graphite. Translated from the Russian by John Glad. New York: Norton, 1981.
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Varlam Shalamov
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Russian
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Varlam Shalamov. Graphite. Translated from the Russian by John Glad. New York: Norton, 1981.
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Varlam Shalamov
Review 1981
Clarence Brown. Memoirs From the House of the Dead
Varlam Shalamov

ON ONE CHRISTMAS NIGHT in the 1930s or '40s or early '50s (the dates are not important) some prisoners are sitting around a stove in a Soviet concentration camp in Siberia. The extra degree of warmth laid on for the holiday has made them almost giddy...

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Varlam Shalamov
Review 1981
Jay Martin. Seventeen Years in Kolyma
Varlam Shalamov

IN 1937 Varlam Shalamov, a rising young Soviet author, was sent to prison to pay for his ideological sins. He spent 17 years in the Kolyma region of northeastern Siberia, where the Soviet Government operated a vast gold-mining operation. He survived...

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