Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag
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Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag is a non-fiction book by historian Orlando Figes that recounts the decades-long love story of a couple separated by Stalin’s labor camps, based on their surviving letters and archival records.
All labels observed (1)
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| Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10223766 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag Context triple: [Orlando Figes, notableWork, Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag]
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A.
Kolyma Tales
Kolyma Tales is a renowned collection of short stories by Varlam Shalamov that depicts the brutal realities of life and survival in the Soviet Gulag system.
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B.
The Gulag Archipelago
The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s landmark three-volume work that exposes and analyzes the Soviet Union’s forced labor camp system through historical research, personal testimony, and moral reflection.
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C.
Letter from Siberia
Letter from Siberia is a 1957 essay film by French filmmaker Chris Marker that blends documentary footage, commentary, and political reflection to portray life and ideology in Soviet-era Siberia.
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D.
Kolyma Highway
The Kolyma Highway is a remote, historically infamous road in Russia’s Far East that links Magadan to the Yakutsk region and is often referred to as the “Road of Bones” due to the many Gulag prisoners who died building it.
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E.
A Russian Diary
A Russian Diary is a posthumously published collection of journalist Anna Politkovskaya’s firsthand accounts and critical observations of political and social life in Russia under Vladimir Putin.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag Target entity description: Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag is a non-fiction book by historian Orlando Figes that recounts the decades-long love story of a couple separated by Stalin’s labor camps, based on their surviving letters and archival records.
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A.
Kolyma Tales
Kolyma Tales is a renowned collection of short stories by Varlam Shalamov that depicts the brutal realities of life and survival in the Soviet Gulag system.
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B.
The Gulag Archipelago
The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s landmark three-volume work that exposes and analyzes the Soviet Union’s forced labor camp system through historical research, personal testimony, and moral reflection.
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C.
Letter from Siberia
Letter from Siberia is a 1957 essay film by French filmmaker Chris Marker that blends documentary footage, commentary, and political reflection to portray life and ideology in Soviet-era Siberia.
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D.
Kolyma Highway
The Kolyma Highway is a remote, historically infamous road in Russia’s Far East that links Magadan to the Yakutsk region and is often referred to as the “Road of Bones” due to the many Gulag prisoners who died building it.
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E.
A Russian Diary
A Russian Diary is a posthumously published collection of journalist Anna Politkovskaya’s firsthand accounts and critical observations of political and social life in Russia under Vladimir Putin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | non-fiction book ⓘ |
| author | Orlando Figes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
archival records
ⓘ
letters between Lev Mishchenko and Svetlana Ivanova ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
biography
ⓘ
history ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorOccupation | historian ⓘ |
| historicalContext | Stalinist labor camp system ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Gulag
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Stalinist repression ⓘ love story ⓘ political prisoners ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| nonFictionSubject |
Soviet history
ⓘ
history of the Gulag ⓘ political repression ⓘ |
| notableFor | use of a large surviving corpus of Gulag-era love letters ⓘ |
| originalPublisher | Allen Lane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonist |
Lev Mishchenko
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Svetlana Ivanova NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2012 ⓘ |
| publisher | Penguin Books NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Gulag labor camps
NERFINISHED
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Soviet Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod |
Soviet Union in the 1930s
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Soviet Union in the 1940s ⓘ Soviet Union in the 1950s NERFINISHED ⓘ Stalin era ⓘ |
| subtitle | A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
endurance
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hope ⓘ survival ⓘ totalitarianism ⓘ |
| timeSpanOfStory | decades ⓘ |
| title | Just Send Me Word NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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