I Speak For The Silent Prisoners Of The Soviets

I Speak For The Silent Prisoners Of The Soviets

â€œOpen at once! This is the GPU.â€

On a cold night in 1930, Vladimir Tchernavinâ€™s home was raided by the GPU, the Soviet secret police, who ransacked his home looking for proof of â€œwreckingâ€ activity.

This was the beginning of two years of persecution, punishment and imprisonment for Tchernavin and his family.

Although a penniless scientist who was aiding the U.S.S.R. with research in fishing he was persecuted by the state because his family were Russian nobility, which to the Soviet Government meant that he was a class enemy.

Tchernavinâ€™s fascinating story takes the reader into the heart of the Soviet Union of the 1930s as it was desperately trying to industrialise, no matter what the cost was in human lives.

Accused of counter-revolutionary activities and not assisting in the industrial drive that Stalin had implemented he was imprisoned in 1931 and sentenced to five years in the Gulags.

Tchernavinâ€™s account vividly depicts the persecution that he and his fellow prisoners suffered at the hands of the U.S.S.R., how many buckled under the torturous conditions, confessing to crimes they had never committed and even indicting others in the process.

Along with his wife and son Tchernavin was one of the lucky ones who was able to escape across the border to Finland and later live in England.

â€œProfessor Tchernavin has an important story to tell and tells it well and convincingly.â€ William Henry Chamberlain, Pacific Affairs

â€œThe story reveals the life and organization of the prisons, the treatment meted out to those dealing with the Communists.â€ Kirkus Reviews

Vladimir Tchernavin was a Russian scientist, who specialized in studying fish. He was one of the first and very few prisoners of the Gulag system to escape. His work I Speak for the Silent Prisoners of the Soviets was first published in 1934 and he died in 1949. This work was translated by Nicholas Oushakoff who had left the U.S.S.R. in the 1920s to settle in Massachusetts. He died in 1973.

Country	USA
Author	Vladimir V. Tchernavin
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Glaive Books
Manufacturer	Glaive Books
NumberOfPages	390
PublicationDate	2017-03-06
Publisher	Glaive Books
ReleaseDate	2017-03-06
Studio	Glaive Books

I Speak For The Silent Prisoners Of The Soviets

â€œOpen at once! This is the GPU.â€

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