El Campesino: Life and Death in the Soviet Union,
 first published in 1952, is the dramatic autobiographical account of 
Spanish revolutionary Valentín Gonzalez (1904-1983). The book (also 
titled Listen Comrades: Life and Death in the Soviet Union)
 details Gonzalez’ experiences in the Spanish Civil War, his conversion 
to communism, and his flight to the Soviet Union following the 
Nationalist victory. In Russia, however, he is eventually arrested, 
tortured by the N.K.V.D., and sent to Vorkuta labor camp, a notorious 
part of the Soviet gulag located north of the Arctic Circle. Gonzalez, 
thoroughly disillusioned, manages to survive the brutality of the gulag,
 escaping Vorkuta (only to be recaptured and placed in a nightmarish 
cell filled with rats and snakes), and eventually completing his 
sentence and making his way across the border of the Soviet Union and 
into freedom in the west.

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