Escape from the Soviets [1934]

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Tatiana Tchernavin. Escape from the Soviets. Tchernavin (1887-1971) wrote one of the earliest accounts of escaping the Soviet Gulag system, along with her husband Vladimir V. Tchernavin. Both were arrested in the early 1930s, and her husband was convicted for "wrecking". They made a daring escape together to Finland in 1932. First-person memoir that reads like a thriller.

NY: E. P. Dutton, 1934. 11th printing of 1st edition. 320 pages. Blue gray cloth, no dustjacket. Spine darkened, fraying at extremities. Frontis of author's son. Text very good, no marks. 1 copy only.