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Journey into the Whirlwind, Eugenia Ginzburg’s memoir of her imprisonment during the era of Stalin’s purges, is divided into two parts. Part One details her arrest, trial, and two years of solitary confinement. Part Two deals with her reassignment to Kolyma, a group of Gulag prison camps deep in Siberia, at the easternmost edge of the country.
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Russian poetry occupies a special place in Journey into the...
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Journey into the Whirlwind, published in 1967, is the first...
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Ginzburg’s younger son. When the book begins in 1935, Vaska...
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Our book begins amidst the Iranian revolution on February 9, 1979. Two days before the Iranian military declares neutrality, the Shah is de-throned, and the Ayatollah Khomeini takes power.
Whirlwind is a novel by James Clavell, first published in 1986. It forms part of the Asian Saga and is chronologically the last book in the series. Set in Iran in early 1979, it follows the fortunes of a group of Struan's helicopter pilots, Iranian officials and oil men and their families in the turmoil surrounding the fall of the Iranian ...
- James Clavell
- 1986
Eugenia Ginzburg's Journey into the Whirlwind Chapter Summary. Find summaries for every chapter, including a Journey into the Whirlwind Chapter Summary Chart to help you understand the book. AI Chat with PDF
In February 1935, Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg is visited by Professor Elvov. Elvov has been a teacher at Kazan University since a four-volume book, History of the All-Union Communist Party...
The opening words of Chapter 1 portend the gravity of the book. An event on December 1, 1934, foreshadows the year 1937, which will forever change Genia Ginzburg's life as well as the lives of millions of Soviet citizens. This event is the murder of Sergei Kirov.
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