Twelve Chairs - The Games
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L. Zalkind, 1929
The theme of this study is 'perpetual persecution', which is appropriate in a
sad way, because he was arrested in 1930 for taking part in a 'Menshevik plot'
and convicted to eight years of prison,
and after his release he was soon sentenced to another five years in a labour camp.
