Conquest, Robert. The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties. New York: Macmillan, 1968. This study is concerned mostly with events that occurred before the Rudomins' deportation, but the epilogue, "Heritage of Terror," touches upon the Nazi-Soviet Pact, and the bibliography contains a useful list of books on police, trials, prison, and camps.

Herling, Gustav. A World Apart. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951. A dramatic and highly readable account of another deportee's grueling experience in a Siberian camp.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. New York: Putnam's, 1963. The famous dissident's first account of life in the gulag. The movie version is also well worth watching.

Swianiewicz, S. Forced Labour and Economic Development. London: Macmillan, 1965. A scholarly study from the perspective of economics.