Everything you need to understand or teach The Industry of Souls by Martin Booth.
Alexander "Shurik"Bayless is the main character in this story. He has lived for more than twenty years in the little village of Myshkino, in the Russian countryside. He is an Englishman, and a former prisoner of the Soviet gulag system who, decades earlier, was imprisoned for political crimes he did not commit. He spent twenty-six years in the labor camp, Sosnogorsklag 32, which is located in the Siberian hinterland. Upon his...