Till My Tale Is Told: Women's Memoirs of the Gulag

"How extraordinary it is that compassion and tenderness may flourish in the cruellest conditions; how stubbornly and bravely people survive them. This is not a depressing book but an inspiriting and encouraging one." --Doris Lessing

"The sixteen life stories are riveting. . . . testimony to the complexity of the human spirit[, ] to miracles of survival and endurance in the most hellish of conditions. . . . Till My Tale Is Told remind[s] us of the importance of remembrance and testimony about this particularly brutal chapter of human history."
--The Women's Review of Books

Arrest, interrogation, imprisonment, trial and sentencing, transport, labor camps, internal exile, sometimes release, often followed by re-arrest and re-imprisonment and, for those who outlived Stalin, eventual reprieve and rehabilitation these are the outlines of the experiences recorded by 16 courageous Russian women whose moving testimonies, most of them written in secret and at great personal risk, are presented here.

Author: Simeon S. Vilensky
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 11/13/2001
Pages: 376
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9780253214768

About the Author

Simeon Vilensky, a former political prisoner, a writer, and a poet, is founder of Vozvrashchenie, an organization in Moscow dedicated to preserving and publishing testimonies of Stalin's victims and aiding camp survivors.