Russell John Connor

Article 58 Russell John Connor

ARTICLE 58 OF THE SOVIET PENAL CODE IDENTIFIED MILLIONS AS 'ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE' Sent from Latvia to Siberia at the age of only fifteen, this is the story of a young man's endurance, survival and love. It is set against a cruel political system that identified millions as 'enemies of the people'. It ends on the day before Stalin's state funeral; a day which proved that from his coffin the twentieth century's most brutal dictator had not lost his capacity to deal out death at random to his subjects.