The Last Days of MandelstamThe year is 1938. The great Russian poet and essayist Osip Mandelstam is forty seven years old and is dying in a transit camp near Vladivostok after having been arrested by Stalins government during the repression of the 1930s and sent into exile with his wife. Stalin, the Kremlin mountaineer, murderer, and peasant slayer, is undoubtedly responsible for his fatal decline. From the depths of his prison cell, lost in a world full of ghosts, Mandelstam