Publisher's Synopsis
"Delaunay's book is called 'Portraits in a barbed wire frame.' I would give it another name, 'The book that is not about self.' . . . Delaunay talks . . . about the fate of Russia as a whole, the fate of a country that tragically found itself behind barbed wire. Between the lines he gives an analysis of the strategy of a police state in pursuit of its selfish agenda. This strategy is extremely simple both in relation to those in the camp and those outside it in the Greater Zone, and eternal, like humanity itself. It plays on the worst sides of human nature as well as the best . . . . -- R. L. Berg, PhD.; This book of Vadim's is the only novel he ever wrote. It is not a memoir or a thesis on prison camp life. It is a collection of sketches in which the author vividly depicted the personalities and nature of his campmates and relationships between them. He managed to convey the emotional state of the life in a camp with that ultimate hone
