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Genia Ginzburg receives a reproof for failing to denounce her colleague Nikolay Elvov.
Part 1, Chapter 3Comrades Beylin and Malyuta interrogate Genia about her actions related to Elvov.
Part 1, Chapter 4Genia is found guilty of having compromised with hostile elements and loses her teaching license.
Part 1, Chapter 4Genia's charges are upgraded to collaborating with enemies of the people.
Part 1, Chapter 7Captain Vevers arrests Genia, and she is imprisoned in the Black Lake Street prison.
Part 1, Chapter 11Genia is transferred to the Butyrki prison in Moscow to await trial by a military tribunal.
Part 1, Chapter 25Genia is found guilty of political crimes and sentenced to 10 years of solitary confinement.
Part 1, Chapter 29Genia is imprisoned in the Pugachev Tower while awaiting transfer to solitary confinement.
Part 1, Chapter 31Genia is transferred to solitary confinement at the Yaroslavl prison.
Part 1, Chapter 32Genia learns she is to serve the remainder of her sentence in a corrective labor camp in Siberia.
Part 1, Chapter 46Genia travels north en route to the camp in Car Number 7 of a special train.
Part 2, Chapter 1Genia is transferred to the state farm at Elgen, where she is assigned to cut trees.
Part 2, Chapter 7Genia is transferred back to the camp to work in a children's home.
Part 2, Chapter 9| Chapter | Summary |
|---|---|
| Part 1, Chapters 1–3 | On December 1, 1934, a member of the Communist Party phones Genia Ginzburg, a teacher, and instructs her to be at the ... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapters 4–6 | One spring day in 1935 Genia Ginzburg and her husband, Paul Aksyonov, visit Livadia, the regional committee's villa ou... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapters 7–9 | In December 1936, Genia Ginzburg takes the train to Moscow to respond to Yemelyan Yaroslavsky's summons. In despair, s... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapters 10–12 | Genia Ginzburg spends the next eight days at home, waiting for the next event to happen. She unrealistically clutches ... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapters 13–15 | During her first night in the Black Lake Street cellars, Genia Ginzburg is taken to an office and interrogated. Her fi... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapters 16–18 | During the next month Genia Ginzburg is interrogated only once. From the interrogator, she learns her children are wel... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapters 19–21 | Her interrogation over, Genia Ginzburg is moved to the prison in Krasin Street. Before leaving, she and Garey Sagidull... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapters 22–24 | One summer morning the prisoners hear fragments of news broadcasts from outside the prison and know "something's up." ... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapters 25–27 | After the train arrives in Moscow, Genia Ginzburg and her fellow prisoners "sense the tremendous scale of the operatio... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapters 28–30 | Three weeks after arriving at Butyrki prison, Genia Ginzburg is called out of her cell and told to leave her things. S... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapters 31–33 | Instead of returning to her former cell at the Butyrki prison, Genia Ginzburg is sent to Pugachev Tower to await depor... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapters 34–36 | With nothing else in her cell, Genia Ginzburg repeatedly reads the 22 rules posted on her wall. "The opus," authorized... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapters 37–39 | On December 1, 1937, the third anniversary of Sergei Kirov's death, Genia is placed in an underground punishment cell ... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapters 40–42 | The year 1938 passes monotonously. Genia Ginzburg and her cellmate, Julia Karepova, rise at the warder's command to ge... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapters 43–45 | In late June of 1938 Genia Ginzburg receives a letter from her mother saying her father died on May 31. Thirty minutes... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapters 46–48 | In May of 1939 Genia Ginzburg and Julia Karepova are encouraged by the news of Nikolay Yezhov's downfall and try to pr... Read More |
| Part 2, Chapters 1–3 | It's June 1939 when Genia Ginzburg and 75 other women board Car Number 7. Although they have no idea of their destinat... Read More |
| Part 2, Chapters 4–6 | Genia Ginzburg and her fellow prisoners take a steamer, the Dzhurma, to Kolyma. They are crammed onto the ship where t... Read More |
| Part 2, Chapters 7–9 | The prisoners travel from Magadan to Elgen in an open truck. Although it is April, it is bitterly cold. The Siberian l... Read More |
| Epilogue | Genia Ginzburg narrates this chapter after she has been freed and is in her fifties. She finds it hard to believe "such ... Read More |
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