Yevgenia ginzburg biography samples

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Evgeniia Semonovna Ginzburg was born on December 20, 1904 and died on May 25, 1977. Her memoirs of the Soviet camp system are both historically informative and of considerable literary value.

Yevgenia ginzburg biography samples

Though they circulated for many years in "Samizdat" (undergound, often handwritten or typewritten form) in the Soviet Union, and were published abroad in several different languages, they were not published in the USSR until 1989.

(Journey into the Whirlwind, which I keep misnaming "Into the Whirlwind," first appeared in English in Paul Stevenson and Max Hayward's translation in 1967; the second volume, translated as Within the Whirlwind, came out in Ian Boland's translation in 1981.) Ginzburg is also of note as the mother of author Vasilii Aksyonov, who was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1980.

His partly-autobiographical and partly-fantastic novel, The Burn, includes some passages about her. (Aksyonov was originally