How Long to Read My Journey

How Long Does it Take to Read My Journey?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 16 minutes to read My Journey by Olga Adamova-Sliozberg

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This is the first English translation of Olga Adamova-Sliozberg’s mesmerizing My Journey , which was not officially published in Russia until 2002. It is among the best known of Gulag memoirs and was one of the first to become widely available in underground samizdat circulation. Alexander Solzhenitsyn relied heavily upon it when writing Gulag Archipelago, and it remains the best account of the daily life of women in the Soviet prison camps. Arrested along with her husband (who, she would much later learn, was shot the next day) in the great purges of the thirties, Adamova-Sliozberg decided to record her Gulag experiences a year after her arrest, and she “wrote them down in her head” (paper and pencils were not available to prisoners) every night for years. When she returned to Moscow after the war in 1946, she composed the memoir on paper for the first time and then buried it in the garden of the family dacha. After her re-arrest and seven more years of banishment to Kazakhstan, she returned to the dacha to dig up the buried memoir, but could not find it. She sat down and wrote it all over again. In her later years she also added a collection of stories about her family. Concluding on a hopeful note—Adamova-Sliozberg’s record is cleared, she re-marries a fellow former-prisoner, and she is reunited with her children—this story is a stunning account of perseverance in the face of injustice and unimaginable hardship. This vital primary source continues to fascinate anyone interesting in the tumultuous history of Russia and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century.

How long is My Journey?

My Journey by Olga Adamova-Sliozberg is 313 pages long, and a total of 79,189 words.

This makes it 106% the length of the average book. It also has 97% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read My Journey Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 12 minutes to read My Journey aloud.

What Reading Level is My Journey?

My Journey is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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