Memoirs
Memoirs
By:Петр Григорьевич Григоренко
Published on 1982 by W W Norton & Company Incorporated
These memoirs recount the full life and times of the only Soviet general ever exiled, a man familiar with power and with those who wielded it at the top of the Soviet hierarchy. Grigorenko was born in the Ukraine in 1907. As a youth he witnessed the atrocities of the Reds and Whites as the revolution flamed into civil war - events recorded with stunning authenticity. Drawn to the ideals of communism, he became a party member in 1927, a loyal officer in the Red Army during the 1930s, and, as a general in World War II, a much decorated hero. It was after the death of Stalin that Grigorenko found himself menacingly at odds with Soviet regime. Unable to remain silent about the injustices he saw around him, he moved into open opposition to many of Khrushchev's policies. That was more than a totalitarian state would permit. In 1964 he was stripped of his rank and imprisoned in a |special| psychiatric hospital. When released, like fellow celebrated dissidents Bucofsky, Sakharov, and others, he was kept under constant surveillance. In 1969 he was incarcerated again for 5 yeas, and in 1977, while visiting the United States with his wife, his Soviet citizenship was revoked. Living in exile he wrote this unique inside view of Soviet history, the vigor, honesty, and passion of which is reminiscent of the great Russian novels.
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