Get a copy of “The Alexander Dolgun Story”.
Mr. Dolgun was the son of an american engineer who went to work in Russia in the 1930s. He was employed part time at the US embassy. On his way to work he was arrested by the organs and interrogated, he was sentenced under article 58 and served 14 years in the gulag. Finally released under the Khrushchev amnesty he was reunited with his american sister and finally managed to emigrate to the west.
Another view of the soviet system.
Thanks very much for that recommendation and I’ll try to get it. By the way, “Article 58” is something (as I’m sure you know) that Solzenitsyn made internationally notorious. When I was in graduate school my area of concentration was Soviet Studies and I have a large library in that area. But that book is one I don’t have and I’m already anxious to read it and add it to my collection. I admit I’m addicted to that area of study and the learning never ends! Maybe I’m an idiot savant - but I don’t care and I enjoy it. Regards,