Hidden World
Published on 30. January 2020
151 pages
978-1-83974-211-8 (ISBN)
Description
A Hidden World, first published in 1963, recounts the nine years spent by Hungarian Raphael Rupert in the prison camps of Soviet Russia-the Gulag. At the time of his arrest in 1947, Rupert was working from the British Embassy in Budapest. His trial, based on a presumed confession of acting as a spy, ended in his sentence to Camp 10 for 25 years of 'forced labor.' A Hidden World describes the daily life and endless brutalities endured in the camps...the numbing winter cold, the mindless drudgery in the factories, the harsh treatment by guards and prison gangs, the lack of food and medical care. Finally, after nine years, Rupert was released and able to emigrate to Great Britain, eventually settling in Ireland.
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Content
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- About the Author
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- I. EASTWARD - 1947-1949
- 1. Arrest - JUNE 1947
- 2. Russian Interrogation - JULY 1947
- 3. Prisons on Wheels - DECEMBER 1948
- II. RUSSIA - 1949-1954
- 4. Quarantine - MARCH 1949
- 5. The World of Prison Camps - APRIL 1949
- 6. The Bandits
- 7. Kaleidoscope of Nations
- 8. Women's Camps
- 9. Self-Made Doctors
- 10. Forestry and a Punishment Brigade - DECEMBER 1949
- 11. In a Factory
- 12. On the Land
- 13. The "Saints"
- 14. The Cynics
- 15. The Death of Stalin - MARCH 1953
- 16. The Sky Darkens Again: Camp No. 5 - JULY 1953
- 17. Summoned to Moscow - JANUARY 1954
- 18. The Lubianka Prison - FEBRUARY 1954
- III. WESTWARD - 1954-1956
- 19. The Long Road Home - MAY 1954
- 20. A Prisoner in my Own Country - NOVEMBER 1955
- 21. I Gain Freedom and Lose my Family - OCTOBER 1956
- APPENDIX - The Death Sentence in Russia
