Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2018
The beautifully illustrated, heartbreaking story of an innocent man in a Soviet gulag, told for the first time in English.
One fateful day in 1934, a husband arranged to meet his wife under the colonnade of the Bolshoi theatre. As she waited for him in vain, he was only a few hundred metres away, in a cell in the notorious Lubyanka prison.
Less than a year before, Alexey Wangenheim - a celebrated meteorologist - had been hailed by Stalin as a national hero. But following his sudden arrest, he was exiled to a gulag, forced to spend his remaining years on an island in the frozen north, along with thousands of other political prisoners.
Stalin's Meteorologist is the thrilling and deeply moving account of an innocent man caught up in the brutality of Soviet paranoia. It's a timely reminder of the human consequences of political extremism.
| ISBN: | 9781784701758 |
| Publication date: | 5th July 2018 |
| Author: | Olivier Rolin |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 192 pages |
| Genres: |
True stories of discovery Second World War Biography: historical, political and military Cold wars and proxy conflicts Modern warfare Far-left political ideologies and movements Political oppression and persecution Prisoners of war General and world history |
Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2018The beautifully illustrated, heartbreaking story of an innocent man in a Soviet gulag, told for the first time in English.One fateful day in 1934, a husband arranged to meet his wife under the colonnade of the Bolshoi theatre. As she waited for him in vain, he was only a few hundred metres away, in a cell in the notorious Lubyanka prison.
Stalin's Meteorologist features in the following genres: True stories of discovery, Second World War, Biography: historical, political and military, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, Modern warfare, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Political oppression and persecution, Prisoners of war, General and world history
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Stalin's Meteorologist was written by Olivier Rolin and published by Vintage an imprint of Random House
Stalin's Meteorologist has 192 pages
£8.09, reduced from £8.99. Print on Demand / Special Order.