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Extract from a novel by a Russian author recently sentenced to a long term in a labour camp The author is a 46-year-old Russian historian who used to be the headmaster of a village school. In 1967 he was sentenced to six years' imprisonment for his membership of the All-Russian Social-Christian Union and after his release he worked as a labourer. In May 1983 he was sentenced to another ten years' term in a labour camp, to be followed by five years of internal exile. The charge was 'anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda' allegedly committed through his literary work. He was adopted as prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International. The following is an extract from Borodin's novel which is to be published in English by Quartet Books, to whom we are grateful for permission to print it.