Summary of Eugenia Semenovna Ginzburg's Journey into the Whirlwind

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#1 The year 1937 began at the end of 1934, when I was ordered to attend the regional committee office, Room 37, at six A. M. I did not know what had happened, but I knew that the murderer was a Communist.

#2 In 1935, Elvov came to see me. He had been a speaker at meetings of Party activists and the city’s intelligentsia, and he was one of the most hated men in town. He told me that he was in for it, and that he had never done anything against the Party.

#3 When I met Elvov in 1932, he was assistant professor of Russian history at the Teachers Training Institute in Kazan. We immediately began working on several joint publications, and he invited me to take part in preparing a source book on the history of Tartary.

#4 The first two years of my life as a Communist were characterized by the prelude to the symphony of madness and terror that began in February 1937. I was accused of something I hadn’t done, and I didn’t denounce Elvov as a Trotskyist contraband dealer.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822536012

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#1

The year 1937 began at the end of 1934, when I was ordered to attend the regional committee office, Room 37, at six A. M. I did not know what had happened, but I knew that the murderer was a Communist.

#2

In 1935, Elvov came to see me. He had been a speaker at meetings of Party activists and the city’s intelligentsia, and he was one of the most hated men in town. He told me that he was in for it, and that he had never done anything against the Party.

#3

When I met Elvov in 1932, he was assistant professor of Russian history at the Teachers Training Institute in Kazan. We immediately began working on several joint publications, and he invited me to take part in preparing a source book on the history of Tartary.

#4

The first two years of my life as a Communist were characterized by the prelude to the symphony of madness and terror that began in February 1937. I was accused of something I hadn’t done, and I didn’t denounce Elvov as a Trotskyist contraband dealer.

#5

The Party meeting was flooded with contrite articles by Party theorists. The press was flooded with contrite articles by Party theorists. The power and importance of the NKVD grew with every day.

#6

In 1935, I was invited to visit the regional committee’s country villa Livadia, built by Lepa’s predecessor, Mikhail Razumov. I was introduced to Comrade Beylin, the new chairman of the bureau of Party political control. He spoke quietly, addressing me in the second person singular as was proper between Party members.

#7

My experience in 1935 was similar to what I went through in later years, except for the fact that the circumstances were different. I was still safe and my family was still with me. I was still able to live my life, but I was waiting for an inevitable disaster.

#8

Pitkovskaya was a devoted communist who never took offense at anyone. She was heartbroken when her husband was arrested, but she kept his arrest a secret to protect him. She was eventually expelled from the party for being associated with an enemy of the party.

#9

The snowball continued to roll downhill after the trial. The authorities pulled my teaching license, and I was reprimanded and warned not to return to work. But this was not the end.

#10

I was a teacher in Moscow, and I was arrested for being a Communist on the first of September 1935. I was sent to the gulag, and my mother-in-law, a Communist, told me to go to our old village, Pokrovskoye, and