El Campesino: Life and Death in Soviet Russia PDF
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El Campesino: Life and Death in the Soviet Union,
first published in 1952, is the dramatic autobiographical account of
Spanish revolutionary Valentín Gonzalez (1904-1983). The book (also
titled Listen Comrades: Life and Death in the Soviet Union)
details Gonzalez’ experiences in the Spanish Civil War, his conversion
to communism, and his flight to the Soviet Union following the
Nationalist victory. In Russia, however, he is eventually arrested,
tortured by the N.K.V.D., and sent to Vorkuta labor camp, a notorious
part of the Soviet gulag located north of the Arctic Circle. Gonzalez,
thoroughly disillusioned, manages to survive the brutality of the gulag,
escaping Vorkuta (only to be recaptured and placed in a nightmarish
cell filled with rats and snakes), and eventually completing his
sentence and making his way across the border of the Soviet Union and
into freedom in the west.
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