Journey into the Whirlwind is Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg's
courageous memoir of her harrowing eighteen-year odyssey through the
Soviet Union's prisons and labor camps.
By the late 1930s, Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg had been a loyal and very
active member of the Communist Party for many years. Yet like millions
of others who suffered during Stalin's reign of terror, she was
arrested--on trumped-up charges of being a Trotskyist terrorist and
counter-revolutionary--and sentenced to prison. With an amazing eye for
detail, profound strength, and an indefatigable spirit, Ginzburg
recounts the years, days, and minutes she endured in prisons and labor
camps, including two years of solitary confinement.
A classic account of survival, Journey into the Whirlwind is
considered one of the most important documents of Stalin's regime.
"Stands side by side with Nadezhda Mandelstam's memoirs and
Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago."--Hannah Arendt, author of The
Origins of Totalitarianism
"An intensely personal and passionately felt document in which every
syllable clangors with awful authenticity."--Time