As If Among the Living

Abstract

A letter from Leningrader Iuliia Zakharovna Zhukovskaia was not lost in the flood of responses that followed publication of "The Queen of Evidence" (Literaturnaia gazeta [Literary Gazette], January 27, 1988) [Translated in Soviet Law and Government, Winter 1988-89.—Ed.], "The Secrets of October 1941" (LG, April 20, 1988), and "Trials" (LG, May 4, 1988): "When people read about the terrible events of the recent past, let them weep, become angry, and love their long-suffering motherland even more. For some reason, I see her in the form of my grandmother Evdokiia Mikhailovna, a native Siberian and an illiterate peasant. She died in a camp near Karaganda. She was forty-seven years old at the time of her arrest. She was the wife of an ‘enemy of the people.’ An enemy who even had the honor of ending up in the Short Course [Kratkii kurs]. This was not the fate of all the millions of victims."