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When God Is the Underdog |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Richard Lourie |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1991 |
| Size: 2,956 Words, 16,911 Characters |
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IN THE BEGINNING
Irina Ratushinskaya, translated by Alyona Kojevnikov
New York: Knopf, 1991
320 pp., $23.00
The Russian poet Irina Ratushinskaya grew up free in a totalitarian society and that meant sooner of later she would collide with the authorities. By the age of twenty-eight, she had been sentenced to seven years' hard labor and five years' internal exile for her human rights activities or, as they were termed in the indictment, "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." International pressure caused her release in 1986 after she had been imprisoned for more than four years. Her ordeals in the Gulag were chronicled in her previous memoir, Grey Is the Color of Hope. To keep their spirit alive, some of the women in the camp banded together, planting secret gardens, carin...
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...ing out the moments, like a chicken trying to find its way out of an eggshell that stubbornly refuses to crack." Time was moving for her again and so were events. She was released from the Gulag on October 9, 1986, and in two months, her arm linked with Igor's, she is arriving at London's Heathrow Airport, smiling directly into the camera, her eyes radiant with freedom and a clear conscience.
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