Research Question 1 for The Stalin Epigram and the Arrest of Osip Mandelstam

Mandelstam was arrested in 1934 for writing poetry about Stalin. He was tortured in prison and later exiled with his wife to remote villages. He tried to commit suicide but it did not work and his exile was lessened to banishment from larger cities.   He wrote a poem for Natasha Shtempel which was about women mourning. He was again arrested in 1938 for going against the revolution because he wrote another poem and was sentenced to five years in a labor camp. He died later on from madness and starvation on December 27, 1938. The conditions in the camp must have been horrendous because he died of starvation. He also was crazy when he died so the Russians must have tortured him physical as well as mentally.


Source: http://kirjasto.sci.fi/mandelst.htm