Ратушинская Ирина. Серый-цвет надежды.

Original London edition.

First Russian edition.

Memories, prison and camp. A legitimate question: what is true in this book and what is fiction? The answer is: there is no fiction in this book. Only some names have been changed. All these changes were made in such a way that the KGB would not deal with these people.

The book describes the stay in places of imprisonment of the poetess and dissident Irina Ratushinskaya. In 1981, she was sentenced to seven years in prison. Ratushinskaya's case received wide publicity throughout the world and in 1985 she was released early. One of the conditions of the meeting in Reykjavik M.S. Gorbachev and R. Reagan was the release of Ratushinskaya. Soon after her release, she was deprived of Soviet citizenship and expelled from the country.

Ratushinskaya’s book “Gray is the Color of Hope,” published in 1988, was recognized as a bestseller in England, America, Sweden and Finland, and was published in 18 countries.

Condition: good, cover wrinkled and slightly soiled - see photo.