In 1940, a 22-year-old Soviet engineer named Fyodor Mochulsky finished his studies and was offered a job by the NKVD, Stalin’s secret police, in the Gulag labour-camp system. He was a candidate member ...
This collection of stories forms a Gulag memoir to rival Solzhenitsyn’s ... but the inclusion of Shalamov’s work on the national curriculum is at least a good sign. Shalamov’s stories are fictional in ...