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  Yevgenia Ginzburg Information
Yevgenia Ginzburg (December 20, 1904 - May 25, 1977) (Russian language: Евгения Семёновна Гинзбург) was a Russian historian and writer.
Soon after Yevgenia Ginzburg was born into a family of Jewish pharmacist in Moscow, her family moved to Kazan.
After Stalin's death in 1953, Ginzburg was able to visit Moscow and was fully rehabilitated in 1955, as were millions of wrongly convicted, many posthumously.
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 Yevgenia Ginzburg Biography and Summary
Evgeniia Semenovna Ginzburg's memoirs of her eighteen years in the gulag gained international renown both as the first female eyewitness account of the camps and as a literary masterpiece.
Ginzburg was born on 20 December 1904 into a family of the Moscow...
Yevgenia Ginzburg(December 20, 1904- May 25, 1977) (Russian language: Евгения Семёновна Гинзбург) was a Russian historian and writer.
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 Yevgenia Ginzburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yevgenia Ginzburg (December 20, 1904 - May 25, 1977) (Russian language: Евгения Семёновна Гинзбург) was a Russian historian and writer.
Her husband was arrested in July and convicted for 15 years of "corrective labor" with the confiscation of belongings.
In February 1949, Ginzburg was formally released but had to stay in Magadan for five more years.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yevgenia_Ginzburg   (496 words)

  
 Yevgenia Ginzburg
Yevgenia Ginzburg (December 20, 1904 - May 25, 1977) (Russian language : Евгения Семёновна Гинзбург) was a Russia n historian and writer.
Yevgenia experienced first hand infamous Moscow Lefortovo, Butyrka prisons, Yaroslavl "Korovniki", then dangerous journey in ''wagon-zek'' across the country to Vladivostok, and finally to Kolyma in cargo hold of the steamer ''Jurma'' (Джурма).
After Stalin 's death in 1953, Ginzburg was able to visit Moscow and was fully rehabilitated in 1955, as were millions of wrongly convicted, many posthumous ly.
www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Yevgenia_Ginzburg   (518 words)

  
 Ginsberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carlo Ginzburg, a noted historian and pioneer of microhistory, son of Natalia Ginzburg and Leone Ginzburg
Yevgenia Ginzburg, a Russian historian and writer, mother of Vasily Aksyonov
Lydia Ginzburg, a major Soviet literary critic and a survivor of the siege of Leningrad
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Kolyma Stories and Yevgenia Ginzburg, Journey into the Whirlwind.
Grossman with his wide-ranging novel was unable to make it through that chink: He was too sweeping and sharp in his criticism of the regime by the standards of the times.
For the same reason, Yevgenia Ginzburg was a no-no. As for Solzhenitsyn, he portrayed a day in the life of a peasant in a labor camp.
english.mn.ru /english/printver.php?2003-49-8   (1585 words)

  
 GULAG: A HISTORY OF THE SOVIET CAMPS, by Anne Applebaum
From arrest by the Soviet secret police through interrogation, to deportation and hard labor, the life-and-death cycle of the gulag is a familiar story.
Other witnesses, like Varlam Shalamov and Evgeniya Ginzburg, have also brilliantly described prisoners' constant struggle against hunger, cold and disease.
Applebaum quotes frequently from many accounts that deserve a wider readership, including those of Gustav Herling-Grudzinski and Evgeniya Ginzburg, but she also unearths more obscure works that on this evidence warrant urgent translation.
www.arlindo-correia.com /041003.html   (15451 words)

  
 The St. Petersburg Times - Top Stories - New Times Loom for Fabled Lefortovo Prison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
A roar from a wind tunnel built at the nearby Central Air and Hydrodynamcs Institute also tortured inmates, he wrote.
Writer Yevgenia Ginzburg, who was kept in Lefortovo during Stalin's Great Terror in the 1930s, wrote in her book "Steep Route" that loud tractor engines were often running in the courtyard of the prison to deaden the screams of prisoners being shot in the basement.
Those who have been inside in recent years say that today it is the most quiet and tranquil prison in Russia.
www.sptimes.ru /story/3758   (1581 words)

  
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Into the Whirlwind (Krutoi Marshrut): an adaptation of Yevgenia Ginzburg's memoirs about her experiences in the prison camps.
Victim of the Century (Zhertva Veka): an energetic, showy staging of Ostrovsky's comedy "The Last Victim," about a group of people who are willing to sell anything for the right price.
Stars Yevgenia Simonova, Natalya Gundareva and Alexander Lazarev.
www.themoscowtimes.com /doc/22-June-2001.html   (540 words)

  
 SmokeLong Quarterly - Smoking With Ania Vesenny
Children’s literature was excellent in the USSR, and I identified with the imaginary characters who lived in the 1940s and 1960s.
Yet even as a child I knew that their world was different from what the books told me. I remember reading Yevgenia Ginzburg’s Into the Whirlwind (her experiences in the gulag) when I was eleven years old.
The dichotomy between the real and the constructed has always fascinated me.
smokelong.com /interview/219.asp   (439 words)

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