Steep Route

This dramatic narrative about 18 years spent exiled in a prison camp will give readers newfound respect for the strength of the human spirit. "Steep Route" is documentation of the horrors that occurred and comes complete with photographs and original documents. Famous civil rights activists Raisa Orlova and Lev Kopelev talk about the last years of the author's life. Evgeniya Ginzburg worked as a history professor at Kazan University; the wife of high ranking Communist Pavel Aksyonov and mother to future writer Vasily Aksyonov, she was charged with participating in terrorist activities and arrested in 1937. She wrote about the 18 years she spent in a prison camp in her book, "Steep Route,