Gulag Love Story
In 2011 Figes revealed that his next book will be a love story set in the Gulag based on 1,500 uncensored letters smuggled in and out of the Pechora labour camp from 1946, interviews with the couple, Lev and Sveta Mishchenko, who had met in the 1930s as students at the Physics Faculty of Moscow University, and the archives of the labour camp itself. According to Figes, "Lev's letters are the only major real-time record of daily life in the Gulag that has ever come to light."
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