Translated by Peter Reddaway.

Amalrik gives a rigorously exact, dispassionate account of his experiences as a nonconformist intellectual in Soviet Russia, including his imprisonment, trial, and exile to Siberia, on a charge of "parasitism." Translated by Manya Harari and Max Hayward; Introduction by Max Hayward.

Focusing on life and work after the author's release in 1935 from a Soviet labor camp, his story is told chronologically, and begins with his difficulties finding a job in the Russian provinces. This memoir may be most valuable for what it reveals about Russian society and economy and the indomitable creativity with which ordinary people sustained both their lives.

Stephen Cohen has written the classic biography of the man whose reputation Gorbachev has now fully restored.

Contents: The Prewar Experience; Evolution of Airborne Forces During World War II; Operational Employment: Vyaz'ma, January-February 1942; Operational Employment: Vyaz'ma, February-June 1942; Operational Employment: On the Dnepr, September 1943; Tactical Employment; The Postwar Years.