A collection of stories by an Estonian on the daily dilemmas of living in a society ruled by a dictatorship. Thus, trying to stay out of politics is often a disguised form of collaboration and personal survival may require sacrificing a friend. The author spent five years in a Soviet gulag.— Google Books

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The Guardianby Ian Thomson · Jul 2003
<p>Jaan Kross survived the Nazi and Soviet occupations of Estonia and hard labour in the Gulag. Denounced by the censors for his poems, he learned to mask his criticisms of the authorities in allegorical novels. After communism's collapse, he helped draft a new constitution and found a wider readership. Ian Thomson reports</p>

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