Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag

Orland Figes, 2012

This moving and fascinating book tells the story of Lev Mishchenko--a man sentenced to the Soviet gulags in 1945, and his girlfriend Svetlana--who never gave up, reconstructed from a uniquely uncensored treasure trove of more than 2,000 love letters.

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