Ivan Chistyakov | Granta Magazine

Ivan Chistyakov

Ivan Chistyakov was expelled from the Communist Party during the purges of the late 1920s and early 1930s. He was killed during the 1941 German offensive in the Russian province of  Tula. The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard is forthcoming by Pegasus Books in the US and Granta Books in the UK.