Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg (1896-1977) had been a committed and active member of the Communist Party for many years by the late 1930s. Despite this, she was arrested (on false claims of being a Trotskyist terrorist counter-revolutionary) and put to prison, as were millions of others during Stalin's reign of terror. Ginzburg recalls her years, days, and minutes in jails and work camps, including two years in solitary confinement, with an incredible eye for detail, great strength, and an inexhaustible spirit.