ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1971
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

U dobrom stanju


Involuntary Journey To Siberia
Readers Union, Newton Abbot, UK
1971
Hardcover
Fine

The author of that astonishingly bold document Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984? here gives a rigorously exact, dispassionate account of his vicissitudes as a nonconformist intellectual in Soviet Russia. His interest in avant-garde art and his contacts with foreign journalists and diplomats led to a police search. With graphic and engrossing precision Amalrik describes the events leading up to his imprisonment and trial, and his subsequent exile, on a charge of `parasitism,` to a collective farm in Siberia.

The unadorned veracity of the writing, the uninhibited comments on the true reality of Soviet life, produce in the reader a rare effect of participation. Amalrik`s evident concern is with the truth, whether he describes the trials of life in Moscow in an apartment shared by spying, hostile neighbors, or the abysmally low living conditions to which agricultural workers are doomed. As no one before him has done he gives a sense of the apathy and ignorance of the dispossessed peasants, who make up approximately one half of the Soviet Russian population.

This autobiographical account is absorbingly interesting on several grounds: Amalrik is an accomplished writer with an original mind; he reports without bias, without illusions, without