Download or read book The Mandelstam File and Der Nister File written by Peter B. Maggs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproducing actual Soviet documents, this work examines what prison and labour camp files reveal of the fate of the poet Osip Mandelstam and the history of the Yiddish writer Pinhas Kahanovich (Der Nister). It also provides a guide to the analysis of Stalin-era prison and labour camp files.