Foreword
Through the Snow
On Tick
In the Night
Carpenters
An Individual Assignment
A 'Pushover' Job
Dry Rations
The Injector
The Apostle Paul
Berries
Tamara the Bitch
Cherry Brandy
A Child's Drawings
Condensed Milk
The Snake Charmer
The Golden Taiga
Vaska Denisov, Kidnapper of Pigs
A Day Off
Dominoes
Shock Therapy
The Lawyers' Plot
Typhoid Quarantine
The Procurator of Judea
The Lepers
Descendant of a Decembrist
Committees for the Poor
Magic
A Piece of Meat
Esperanto
Major Pugachov's Last Battle
The Used-Book Dealer
Lend-Lease
Sententious
The Seizure
An Epitaph
Handwriting
The Businessman
Captain Tolly's Love
In the Bathhouse
The Green Procurator
My First Tooth
Prosthetic Appliances
The Train
The Red Cross
Women in the Criminal World
Quiet
Grishka Logun's Thermometer
Chief of Political Control
The Life of Engineer Kipreev
Mister Popp's Visit
The Theft
The Letter
Fire and Water
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Varlam Shalamov (1907-1982) was a Russian writer, poet, and
journalist. He survived 17 years of incarceration in the Gulag for
speaking out against the Soviet Union. His collection of essays,
Kolyma Tales, details his experiences under the
Soviet government.
John Glad (1941-2015) was an American scholar who
specialized in Russian literature. He taught Russian at the
University of Maryland and Rutgers University. Additionally, Glad
was a notable translator of speeches by Mikhail Gorbachev, and
also of Russian literature, particularly the works of
Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn and Varlam Shalamov.
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