089641
London
1979
13×19,5
meki
573
engleski
Price: 45,00 EUR
The book was originally written between 1936 and 1937 and published in Paris in 1938 under the French title Au Pays du Grand Mensonge ("In the Country of the Great Lie"). The book documents Ciliga's experiences between 1926 and 1935. After moving to the USSR as an ardent Bolshevik, he joined the Trotskyist Left Opposition to protest Joseph Stalin's policies. This led to his arrest by the GPU (Soviet secret police) in 1930. Ciliga spent three years in "political isolator" prisons and two years exiled in Siberia before his foreign citizenship eventually allowed him to leave the USSR. The Russian Enigma is highly regarded for its detailed, firsthand reporting on: The Gulag System: It offers precise accounts of the brutal conditions, systemic criminalization, and early structural realities of Soviet labor camps. State Capitalism: Ciliga argues that rather than creating a true worker's state, the Soviet bureaucracy developed into a new ruling and exploiting class operating on a model of state capitalism. Ideological Disillusionment: The book tracks his intellectual shift from a dedicated communist to a fierce critic of totalitarianism, a transformation that eventually led him toward nationalism later in life.
