Prisoner of the OGPU: Four Years in a Soviet Labor Camp

by George Kitchin

Book Overview

"Why should we hope? Our lives are wholly blasted, And all of us are damned by destiny?" George Kitchin provides a first-hand account of his four year imprisonment in a Soviet gulag, from 1928-32. At the time of his incarceration, Kitchin, a Finnish citizen, was working in Russia as a representative for an American firm. He was arrested by the Soviet secret police (known as the OGPU at the time), charged with violating an obscure regulation, held...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1549582186
• ISBN13: 9781549582189
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"