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This is the diary Ivan Chistyakov kept from 1935 to 1936 while serving as a senior guard at the Baikal Amur corrective labor camp. He was an educated city man with nostalgia for pre-Revolutionary Russia, and he wrote as both an observer of the camp and a kind of prisoner himself. The diary moves between poetic passages on the taiga landscape, grumbles about his stove, accounts of brutal camp conditions and reflections on loneliness. It stands apart from gulag memoirs by survivors because the author is a guard, and it is one of the few first-person records from that side of the wire.
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This book presents the diary of Ivan Chistyakov, a senior guard at the Baikal Amur Corrective Labour Camp. The diary covers 1935 to 1936. It was kept in exercise books. At the back of them are a blurred snapshot and a note saying Chistyakov was repressed in 1937-38 and killed at the front in Tula Province in 1941.
Chistyakov was a guard, but in some ways a prisoner too. He is a cultured, urbane former city dweller with a secret nostalgia for pre-Revolutionary Russia. He does not just record camp life, he narrates it, as a sharp-eyed, sympathetic and humane witness.
The entries range from poetic reflections on the bitter landscape of the taiga to plain complaints about an inefficient stove. They also describe the brutal conditions of the camp and reflect on the cruelty of loneliness. The diary is an immediate account of a place and time whose repercussions still affect modern Russia and modern Europe.
