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Maximovich, M. Involuntary comparisons: Documents, memoirs, meetings / Matvey Maksimovich. London: Overseas publ. interchange, 1982. - 158, [2] p.; 18x12 cm. In a three-colour font publisher's cover. Good safety.

The author of the book is one of those who survived the "Kolyma tragedy" and being in the wilds of the GULAG. He did not write his memoirs, but set himself the goal of drawing a parallel between the actions of the punitive organs of the tsarist regime in Russia and the punitive and educational system of the Soviet government.

Soviet camp literature is widely represented in today's book production, and a new book on this topic might not have attracted the reader's attention.

The author of the proposed memoir-documentary essay took a different path, and therefore his work cannot be called camp in terms of subject matter.

One of those who survived the "Kolyma epic" and being in the wilds of the Gulag, he did not write his memoirs, but set himself the goal of drawing a parallel between the actions of the punitive bodies of the tsarist regime in Russia and the punitive and educational system of the Soviet government.

Deliberately omitting all aspects of the Code of Criminal Procedure, designed to punish and isolate criminals from society, he focused on the preventive measures and punishments applied to the so-called "secret" or "political" enemies of the tsarist regime - and convicted on various points of the famous article 58 of the Soviet Code of Criminal Procedure.

Twice passing through the purgatory and hell of the Soviet punitive system - in 1926 and 1947-56, the author consistently compares the conditions of life, maintenance, transfer, labor and education of the enemies of the tsarist regime - and "enemies of the people" in the "country of victorious socialism" .

For comparison, he uses the works of S. Maksimov, who in 1891 published the three-volume book "Siberia and Hard Labor", and especially - M. N. Gernet, a lawyer of tsarist times who accepted Soviet power, whose five-volume work "History of the Tsar's Prison" was repeatedly reprinted in the USSR and, therefore, was "approved" by Soviet ideologists.

Historical facts and his own memories, stories about people and meetings lead the author to the conclusion that the Soviet penitentiary system, as well as the Gulag system, in its injustice, inhumanity and sophisticated cruelty, many times exceeds everything that was done in its time royal punishers to protect the autocracy.

The book contains a lot of valuable historical material, convex sketches of the living conditions of "political" prisoners in the camps and transfers of the Gulag, stories about interesting meetings and partings with people who, like the author himself, fell into the inexorable millstones of the Soviet punitive mill and either died, not knowing what they accept death for, or, also not knowing why, they survived and were released - disabled people who forever lost their faith in the ideals of goodness and justice.

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ISBN 0-903868-43-1
Publisher Overseas Publications Interchange
Publication date 1982
Number of Pages 160
Bookbinding Мягкий

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