Escape from Russia tells a story of a boy who is deported from Poland to Siberia, by the NKVD (the Soviet Secret Police) in 1940. It describes how the boy and his family were arrested and sent beyond the Ural Mountains north toward the Arctic Circle, where they were to live out their lives in the Soviet labor camp.
As it happened, the time spent in the Russian gulag was not forever. After the Maisky - Sikorski Agreement of 1941, which was during the Soviet - German War, the family dares to leave Siberia. The family then travels south eventually reaching Uzbekistan, where they settle on a collective farm called "Lenin". During this journey, the boy endures Communist oppression, the bitter cold of Russia, hunger, sickness and death. Three members of the family die of Typhus in Bukhara. With the three remaining children, the mother continues the laborious plan the father set out; to leave Russia!