Into the Whirlwind Author:Eugenia Ginzburg, Paul Stevenson (Translator), Manya Harari (Translator) A teacher and Communist Party activist, Eugenia Ginzburg was married to the mayor of Kazan. The perfectly ‘normal’, bourgeois, seemingly stable nature of her life is heartrendingly portrayed. But when a university colleague is arrested for alleged Trotskyist activities, the 30 year-old Eugenia is charged with not having denounced him... more ». Soon she is expelled from the Party and interrogated; later she was sent to Kolyma, an enormous complex of labour camps in the Russian Far East.
She always hoped to write about her experiences one day and seems to have had total recall. She started to write after her release in 1955. A typescript of Into the Whirlwind was circulated in Russia and published in the West in 1967. A second volume Within the Whirlwind came out in English in 1981.« less