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Kolyma Tales
Varlam Shalamov
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Title
Kolyma Tales
Author
Varlam Shalamov
Realm
Russian
Illustrations
No
Language
Russian
Varlam Shalamov. Kolyma Tales. Translated from the Russian by John Glad. New York: Norton, 1980.
Reviews 2
Kolyma Tales
Varlam Shalamov
Review 1980
Irving Howe. Beyond Bitterness
Varlam Shalamov

The strength of these stories derives, first of all, from a refusal to blink at the finality of waste. Varlam Shalamov, now seventy-three, said to be living in Moscow, spent seventeen years in the forced labor camps of Kolyma, and his life was shattered by this ordeal...

Kolyma Tales
Varlam Shalamov
Review 1980
Gene Sosin. Survivor's Poetic Memoir of Stalin's Worst Camp
Varlam Shalamov

"Kolyma, Kolyma, faraway planet / Twelve months winter, the rest summer." This verse was sung by the forced laborers of Stalin's concentration camps in the northeastern Siberian gold fields where, according to Robert Conquest, 2 to 3 million prisoners perished in temperatures reaching minus 70 degrees C...

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