Volume 49, Number 16 · October 24, 2002
After the Gulag
By Anne Applebaum
The Gulag Survivor: Beyond the Soviet System
by Nanci Adler
Transaction, 290 pp., $34.95
Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia
by Catherine Merridale
Penguin, 402 pp., $16.00 (paper)
Reabilitatsiya: Kak Eto Bylo(Rehabilitation: How It Was)
by Andrei Artizov, Yuri Sigachev, Vyacheslav Khlopov, and Ivan Shevchuk
Moscow: International Democracy Foundation, 502 pp., 90 rubles
In 1955, the Russian writer Yuri Dombrovsky returned home to Moscow after twenty-five years in Soviet camps and exile—twenty-five years 'out there'—to discover that he had not, after all, been completely forgotten. He was handed a rehabilitation document, given a grudging pension, assigned a single room in a communal apartment. Although few of his works would ever be published again, he was allowed to rejoin the Writer's Union. Most of his colleagues there shunned him.
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