No Jail For Thought by Lev Kopelev

No Jail For Thought

by Lev Kopelev

Penguin Books, 1979, black and white photographic plates, paperback

Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners inscription on half-title page marked out, one or two loose pages, pages age toned, (see photographs)

"Kopelev was released in 1954 and now lives in Moscow.  His book tells of his life in the camps, where heroes and whores, thieves and traitors laboured together for survival: where he struggled consistently to clear his name of the mud slung by a myopic and megalomaniac bureaucracy.  And yet Kopelev's unwavering patriotism is untouched.  This is a voice the West has not heard before."