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Surviving Freedom is Janusz Bardach's memoir of life after the Kolyma labor camps, picking up in March 1946 when he was released at twenty-seven. It follows his thousand-mile journey from the Siberian gold mines to Moscow, his reunion with his diplomat brother, his years as a medical student under Stalin, and a return home to learn his wife, parents and sister had died. It is the sequel to Man Is Wolf to Man and reads as a study of grief, post-traumatic stress and rebuilding a life. Readers of gulag and Soviet history who want the aftermath rather than the camp itself are its natural audience; it stands apart from camp narratives by covering release, not imprisonment.
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Reviewers of the Bardach memoirs treat the two books as a matched pair and praise the sequel for going where most gulag accounts stop: release. They credit its candor about grief and dislocation, and note it works best read after Man Is Wolf to Man.
Surviving Freedom: After the Gulag is a memoir by Janusz Bardach and the sequel to Man Is Wolf to Man. In 1941, Bardach was a 22-year-old Red Army soldier on the Belarussian front. He was arrested, court-martialed and sentenced to ten years of hard labor for a crime he did not commit. The first book recounted his time in the Kolyma labor camps in northeastern Siberia.
This book picks up in March 1946, when he is released. It follows his thousand-mile journey from the Siberian gold mines to Moscow in the turmoil after the war. It covers his reunion with his brother, a high-ranking diplomat in the Polish embassy in Moscow, and his experiences as a medical student in the Stalinist Soviet Union.
The account also follows his return to his hometown, where he learns of the deaths of his wife, parents and sister. It explores loss, post-traumatic stress and existential loneliness. It also portrays postwar Stalinist Moscow from the view of someone who was both an insider and an outsider.
