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Pages: 232
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Authors: Avvakum Petrovich (Protopope)
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Archpriest Avvakum's autobiography is a record of his life, ecclesiastical career, painful exile, religious persecution, and imprisonment, written in the 1660s
My Fellow Prisoners
Language: en
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Categories: Political Science
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Kolyma Tales
Language: en
Pages: 488
Authors: Varlan Shalamov
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It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent sev