Live As Others Live

Anatoly Marchenko is one of the most extraordinary individuals to have emerged in Soviet society. Both his parents ate illiterate railroad workers, and Marchenko himself, who was born in 1938, has only an eighth-grade education. But after spending six years in the labor camps for political prisoners, Marchenko wrote My Testimony, the first account of the camps in the post-Stalin period, under Nikita Khrushchev, when the Soviet Union seemed intent on liberalization and political reform. Marche...