Just Send Me WordA True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag-Hardback
An extraordinary true story of love, hope, and survival in Stalin’s Soviet Union. Just Send Me Word recounts the powerful bond between Lev and Sveta—two young Russians separated by the horrors of the Gulag, but connected through thousands of letters that defied time, distance, and oppression.
Based on over 1,500 uncensored letters discovered in a private archive, historian Orlando Figes tells a rare and intimate tale of endurance: not just of one man’s survival in the notorious Pechora labor camp, but of a love that persisted across years of imprisonment and silence.
• A unique historical record: a decade-long correspondence smuggled across prison gates.• A love story rooted in real lives, revealing the daily reality of Gulag existence.• Vivid, humane, and meticulously researched, shedding new light on one of the 20th century’s most repressive systems.• A testament to hope, showing how words—and love—can defy tyranny.
Both heartbreaking and inspiring, this is a story not just of survival, but of the resilience of the human spirit when everything else is taken away.
| Publisher: |
Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: |
Allen Lane |
| Pub date: |
24 May 2012 |
| DEWEY: |
365.45092 |
| DEWEY edition: |
23 |
| Language: |
English |
| Number of pages: |
333 |
| Weight: |
623g |
| Height: |
240mm |
| Width: |
162mm |
| Spine width: |
33mm |