Olga Shatunovskaya

Olga Grigoryevna Shatunovskaya (Russian: Ольга Григорьевна Шатуновская; 1 March 1901, Baku – 23 November 1990, Moscow) was a prominent Old Bolshevik.

[1][2] A survivor of the Gulag, she was a member of Shvernik Commission created by Nikita Khrushchev to investigate the crimes of Joseph Stalin.

She was arrested in November 1937,[5] and in May 1938 he was sent to a Gulag labor camps for 8 years on charges of being a "counter-revolutionary Trotskyite organization" by the NKVD.

After Stalin's death in 1953, she was rehabilitated in the Soviet Union on May 24, 1954 by the Commission for the Review of Cases of Convicts and Exiles.

Shatunovskaya became a member of the Soviet Party Control Committee, and head of a special commission on rehabilitations during the Khrushchev Thaw.

Her memoirs, recorded by her children and grandchildren, were turned into a book by philosopher and essayist Grigory Pomerants under the title Sledstvie vedet katorzhanka [Investigation led by convict], published in 2004.