Thanks very much for that recommendation and I’ll try to get it. By the way, “Article 58” is something (as I’m sure you know) that Solzenitsyn made internationally notorious. When I was in graduate school my area of concentration was Soviet Studies and I have a large library in that area. But that book is one I don’t have and I’m already anxious to read it and add it to my collection. I admit I’m addicted to that area of study and the learning never ends! Maybe I’m an idiot savant - but I don’t care and I enjoy it. Regards,
You might also look for “The East came West”.
I don’t remember the author but it was an English
officer who took part in the forced repatriation of the
Don Cossacks after the end of the world war.
They didn’t want to return but the British forcibly
turned them over to the Soviet.
Many committed suicide along with their entire families
rather than return, perhaps thousands.
The author wrote it in a rage at his own government.
Another one is “Kolyma” by Conquest but it’s a bit hard to find. Magadan and the death ships, the horror of the northern most camps and the gold fields.
Here’s to “All those still at sea.”