Ginzburg, Evgenia (1896–1980)

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Ginzburg, Evgenia (1896–1980)

Russian memoirist and essayist. Name variations: Evgeniia Semënovna Gínzburg; Evgeniia Semenova or Evgeniia Semenovna Ginzburg; Eugenia Semyonova Ginzburg. Born 1896 in Russia; died 1980.

Was a professor of history at Kazan University and married to a high Communist official; arrested during one of Stalin's many purges (1937), spent 18 years in labor camps, prison, and exile and wrote of her harrowing experiences in an autobiography which became a bestseller abroad (trans. into English as Into the Whirlwind [1967] and Within the Whirlwind [1981]), and was finally published in USSR (1980s).

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