Journey into the Whirlwind
Paperback, 418 pages, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, List Price: $16 | purchase
This book is about:
- Political atrocities,
- Ginzburg, Evgeniëiìa Semenovna,
- Soviet Union,
- Social conditions,
- Political prisoners,
- Biography
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