Grey Is The Color of Hope Author:Irina Ratushinskaya In 1983 in the Soviet Union, twenty-eight-year-old poet and human rights activist Irina Ratushinskaya was sentenced to seven years of hard labor and five years of internal exile. Grey is the Color of Hope is her story of four years spent among a small group of female political prisoners, isolated from other "criminals" because t... more »hey were considered "especially dangerous." From her first moment among these five women, Irina senses their commitment to ideals and each other. --