The gray zone.(Book Review)

From: The Nation | Date: October 13, 2003| Author: Viola, Lynne | Copyright information

Gulag: A History. By Anne Applebaum. Doubleday. 677 pp. $35.

On a hot, dusty summer day in 1998, I drove with friends from Smolensk to the village of Zagor'e to meet Ivan Tvardovsky, a survivor of Stalin's forced-labor camps and the brother of the renowned Soviet poet Alexander Tvardovsky. Ivan and his wife, Maria, both 85, were waiting for us behind the wooden gate to their home.

We sat with the Tvardovskys at their kitchen table for the entire afternoon, lis...

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