Иной мир. Советские записки

Translator: Natalya Gorbanevskaya

Gustaw Gerling-Grudziński (1919-2000) - Polish writer and journalist. A major figure in the Polish literary emigration of the 20th century.

In 1940, in Lviv, he was arrested by the NKVD and accused of espionage. He spent two years in a camp in Ertsevo (Arkhangelsk region).

“Another World” is the first book in the world to tell the truth about the existence of a criminal system of concentration camps in the USSR. This is documentary prose about the cruel methods of “personal reforging” that turned people into camp dust. The book was written in England in 1950 and was first published in English translation with a foreword by Bertrand Russell (1951). Translated into many languages. The Polish original was released in 1953 in London and only in 1989 in Warsaw. The book was first published in Russian by the London publishing house OPI in 1989.