Eugenia Ginzburg's Morality

Eugenia Ginzburg’s was an active communist member who found herself struggling to preserve her physical being and dignity while caught on the wrong side of the Great Terror. Her “counter political” correspondence would lead to arrest, as authorities twisted and exaggerated a few counter political articles into proof of Trotskyist terrorism. These claims immediately thrust her into a spiral of events that dramatically altered the course of her life would challenge the base of her moral ideology and her bodily self to the maximum extent. Thus, Ginzburg would find herself in a constant battle against the regime, fighting constantly to preserve both her moral self and her physical self. Throughout her early imprisonment at Black Lake, Ginzburg …show more content…
It is important to note that despite all her encounters with death, and the horrible conditions she faced, at the book’s end Ginzburg still described herself as an ordinary communist woman. It appears she had remained faithful to the Marxism, despite all the woes it brought her and the people of Russia. Reality, however, tells a different story. The details of Ginzburg’s renouncement of communism do not appear in the book because the book was intended to be published for a communist audience before the fall of the iron curtain, Ginzburg could not publicly denounce communism due to the censors in place and restrictions from the Soviet Union she was writing to. Even though the book published after the Gorbachev reforms, she still did not change the ending. Thus, the book ends in a victory for Communism over Stalinism, suggesting that the party will be everlasting even through the hardest of times. However, this could not be further from the truth, and thus to her deathbed, Ginzburg would continue to resist the Soviet Regime. Ginzburg had triumphed against the Regime, she did not let the regime destroy her or her morals even in the direst of