siberia (r.s.f.s.r.)

Examines the history, people, industry and agriculture of the mysterious Russian lands which comprise one-third of the Asian continent.

Chronicles the conquest and settlement of Siberia from eighteenth century explorations to Stalin's Gulag.

During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the following five years spent on the harsh Asian steppe.