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Alexander Dolgun's Story: An American in the Gulag

Alexander Dolgun

Hardcover | Pages: 370 pages

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Title	:	Alexander Dolgun's Story: An American in the Gulag
Author	:	Alexander Dolgun
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 370 pages
Published	:	January 1st 1975 by Random House (NY)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Cultural. Russia. Biography. History. Autobiography. Memoir

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Alexander Dolgun, from embassy employee, to prisoner, then falsely convicted of being a terrorist against Russia and sentenced to hard labor. Released after eight long years he is finally able to recount the experience of being transported to and between prisons, interactions and friendships with other prisoners, the day to day drudgery of trying to stay alive under horrendous conditions which involved trying to meet ridiculously high work quotas for extremely strenuous jobs while in a constant state of starvation and often, sickness.

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Original Title:	Alexander Dolgun's story: An American in the Gulag
ISBN:	0394494970 (ISBN13: 9780394494975)
Edition Language:	English

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I read this book long ago yet just ran into it again and thought to list it here. The story is told with a rich, expansive clarity. It shows people at the extremes of what they can endure and the various ways they succumb to their environment or devise strategies to survive. The way he uses his multiple languages and innovative negotiating skills to get by is instructive and at times funny (especially when he is trying to manipulate his guards into just inventing interrogation reports etc. Ah

Excellent writing, very good insight (ha-ha) into the grotesque nature and structure of the so-called Soviet/Russian "justice" apparatus; and if you think much has changed in the Soviet (now Russian) punishment system under Putin and/or Medvedev, you are in for a big surprise!!! Same system, same tortures, same sadism, they just shut down some camps in Siberia, but not too many. Gulag is Gulag, then or now, with a few little differences. And Alexandr should be admired for surviving the

Excellent story about life in the USSR under Stalin and the prisons and camps in the gulag system. Might not be the best choice to read while watching the Olympics in Sochi...this book will break your heart and make you furious.

Truly incredible story of American in 1950s caught by KGB and served 20 years hard labor. I read this book whenever I feel my life is tough. So many inspiring and beautiful stories of how humans under unbearable conditions help their fellow man. Very sad as well as immensely inspiring

This is an important book. And its one of the top three survival stories of the 20th century, along with Louis Zamperini in Unbroken and Alistair Urquhart in The Forgotten Highlander.

amazing, amazing, amazing read this over 20 years ago and it really changed my view of the world. One of the best books I have ever read. would highly recommend.

Picked this book up because it was mentioned in a newsletter I get. What a fantastic read. A truly troubling look at the horror of what was Stalinist Russia. The only thing that makes Mr. Dolgun's story unique, is that he is an American when he is kidnapped and falsely accused of spying. (One question that is never really answered is why the US Embassy and Government did not do more to save/rescue Mr. Dolgun.) What follows are almost unbelievable horrors of torture and eventually exile to the