Twenty Years in a Siberian Gulag: Memoir of a Political Prisoner at Kolyma

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Caught up in one of the many purges that swept the Soviet Union during the Great Terror, Leonid Petrovich Bolotov (1906-1987) was one of 86 engineers arrested at Leningrad’s Red Triangle Rubber Factory and sent to the Gulag as enemies of the people. He would be the only one to survive and return his family, enduring two decades in the infamous Kolyma labor camps.
Translated into English and published here for the first time, Bolotov’s memoir narrates with growing intensity his arrest, imprisonment and interrogation, his confession and trial, his exile to hard labor in Arctic Siberia, and his rehabilitation in 1956 following the official end of Stalin’s personality cult.