Compare her memoir with accounts in Fitzpatrick-Slezkine by Treivas and Ulianova.
1. How did Ginzburg experience the terror? How do those who experienced the terror remember it? How did she find meaning in the process she underwent?
2. Based on the prisoners Ginzburg came into contact with, why were people arrested? Why did they think they were arrested? Why was she arrested?
3. Did people submit or resist to arrest, accusation, interrogation? Why?
4. What are some of the pitfalls in accepting Ginzburg’s account as a document of the process of terror? What might be some of the silences of her account?
5. What does mean when she says she is an "ordinary Communist"?
