Escape from Paradise: A Russian Dissidents Journey from the

Escape from Paradise: A Russian Dissident's Journey from the Gulag to the West\nby Alexander Shatravka\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Alexander Shatravka\nTitle: Escape from Paradise: A Russian Dissident's Journey from the Gulag to the West\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Biography: general\nPublisher: Academica Press\nPublication year: 2020\nISBN-13: 9781680531503\nISBN-10: 1680531506\nRRP: \u00A337.95\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThis riveting memoir tells of the fate of a Soviet dissident, Alexander Shatravka, who tried to escape from the Soviet Union in the 1974, only to be caught and returned to twelve years of imprisonment in Soviet psychiatric hospitals and labor camps. Released in 1986, just in time for the momentous changes of glasnost and perestroika, Shatra.