TY - BOOK AU - Alexander Dolgun TI - An American in the Gulag SN - 9780394494975 AV - HV8959.R9 U1 - 365.60924 PB - Knopf : distributed by Random House KW - War KW - Social Problems N2 - Alexander Dolgun, from embassy employee, to prisoner, then falsely convicted of being a terrorist against Russia and sentenced to hard labor. Released after eight long years he is finally able to recount the experience of being transported to and between prisons, interactions and friendships with other prisoners, the day to day drudgery of trying to stay alive under horrendous conditions which involved trying to meet ridiculously high work quotas for extremely strenuous jobs while in a constant state of starvation and often, sickness ER -