Alexander Dolgun's Story: An American In The Gulag
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
In December 1948, a young American embassy clerk named Alexander Dolgun was snatched off the streets of Moscow by Soviet secret police, launching one of the most harrowing and extraordinary survival stories of the Cold War era. Alexander Dolgun's Story: An American in the Gulag chronicles the nightmare that followed — years of brutal interrogation, psychological torture, and imprisonment in Stalin's vast network of labour camps — endured by a man whose only crime was being an American living in the USSR. Written with the narrative urgency of a thriller and the unflinching honesty of a first-hand account, the book details Dolgun's remarkable psychological resilience: the mental tricks, physical disciplines, and sheer force of will that kept him alive through conditions designed to break a man entirely. Co-authored with broadcaster and writer Patrick Watson, this memoir stands as a vital historical document of Soviet totalitarianism, offering an intimate American perspective on a system that swallowed millions into its darkness. Dolgun's voice — direct, defiant, and deeply human — gives weight to statistics that history often renders abstract, transforming archival horror into lived experience. A testament to the indestructibility of the human spirit, the story leaves the reader asking one haunting question: what would it truly take to survive?
Author: Alexander Dolgun With Patrick Watson
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
In December 1948, a young American embassy clerk named Alexander Dolgun was snatched off the streets of Moscow by Soviet secret police, launching one of the most harrowing and extraordinary survival stories of the Cold War era. Alexander Dolgun's Story: An American in the Gulag chronicles the nightmare that followed — years of brutal interrogation, psychological torture, and imprisonment in Stalin's vast network of labour camps — endured by a man whose only crime was being an American living in the USSR. Written with the narrative urgency of a thriller and the unflinching honesty of a first-hand account, the book details Dolgun's remarkable psychological resilience: the mental tricks, physical disciplines, and sheer force of will that kept him alive through conditions designed to break a man entirely. Co-authored with broadcaster and writer Patrick Watson, this memoir stands as a vital historical document of Soviet totalitarianism, offering an intimate American perspective on a system that swallowed millions into its darkness. Dolgun's voice — direct, defiant, and deeply human — gives weight to statistics that history often renders abstract, transforming archival horror into lived experience. A testament to the indestructibility of the human spirit, the story leaves the reader asking one haunting question: what would it truly take to survive?