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Alexander Dolgun's story : an American in the gulag / Alexander Dolgun with Patrick Watson
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Alexander Dolgun's story : an American in the gulag / Alexander Dolgun with Patrick Watson

by Alexander Dolgun, Patrick Watson

This memoir chronicles an American citizen's arrest by the KGB and his survival in the Soviet Gulag. It provides a detailed account of his interrogation and the years spent in labour camps during the Stalinist era.

Accession 26880 ISBN 0002621509 Publisher Collins/Harvill
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