“The foreman matters more than anything else in a prison camp: a new one gives you a new lease of life, a bad one can land you six feet under. Shukov had known Andrei Profofyevich Tyurin back in Ust-Izhma. He hadn’t worked under him there, but when all the “traitors” had been shunted from theContinue reading “RKS Literature: Paying Attention to the Gulag Hierarchy (Solzhenitsyn)”
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