Alexander Dolgun's Story: An American In The Gulag
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In one of the most extraordinary survival narratives of the twentieth century, Alexander Dolgun — an ordinary American embassy clerk living in Moscow — was seized off the street by Soviet secret police in 1948 and plunged into the terrifying machinery of Stalin's Gulag, a world of brutal interrogations, starvation, and psychological warfare that would consume the next eight years of his life. Written with the co-authorship of Patrick Watson, this gripping memoir chronicles Dolgun's harrowing journey through the Soviet prison system, detailing the ingenious mental strategies he devised to preserve his sanity and identity against a state determined to break him utterly. Alexander Dolgun's Story stands as a landmark of Cold War testimony, presenting a uniquely American perspective on the darkest corridors of Stalinist repression — a system that swallowed millions yet left almost no first-hand Western witnesses. Dolgun's account is unflinching and precise, illustrating both the mechanised cruelty of Soviet authoritarianism and the astonishing resilience of the human spirit, and it carries the additional power of a story that almost never made it out of the USSR at all. For anyone who believes they understand the Cold War, this memoir argues otherwise — powerfully and unforgettably.
Author: Alexander Dolgun With Patrick Watson
Format: Hardback
Published: 1975, Collins/Harvill
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In one of the most extraordinary survival narratives of the twentieth century, Alexander Dolgun — an ordinary American embassy clerk living in Moscow — was seized off the street by Soviet secret police in 1948 and plunged into the terrifying machinery of Stalin's Gulag, a world of brutal interrogations, starvation, and psychological warfare that would consume the next eight years of his life. Written with the co-authorship of Patrick Watson, this gripping memoir chronicles Dolgun's harrowing journey through the Soviet prison system, detailing the ingenious mental strategies he devised to preserve his sanity and identity against a state determined to break him utterly. Alexander Dolgun's Story stands as a landmark of Cold War testimony, presenting a uniquely American perspective on the darkest corridors of Stalinist repression — a system that swallowed millions yet left almost no first-hand Western witnesses. Dolgun's account is unflinching and precise, illustrating both the mechanised cruelty of Soviet authoritarianism and the astonishing resilience of the human spirit, and it carries the additional power of a story that almost never made it out of the USSR at all. For anyone who believes they understand the Cold War, this memoir argues otherwise — powerfully and unforgettably.