Voyage au pays des Ze-Ka

by Julius Margolin

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"Journey to the Land of the Zek and Back is a vivid, first-person account of life in the Soviet Gulag, a work that has never appeared in full before in English. It was one of the earliest published accounts of the Soviet camp system when it was published in France in 1949 and became an established classic in the Russian-speaking world, influencing the formation of the genre of Gulag memoirs"--… (more)

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Путешествие в страну зэ-ка

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1949 (French abridged transl.)

1952 (abridged printed ed. ∙ USA)

2010 (French complete transl.)

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