Two Years In A Gulag
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Two Years In A Gulag
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Author : Frank Pleszak
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2013-02-15
Two Years In A Gulag written by Frank Pleszak and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-15 with History categories.
The true story of a Polish peasant exiled to the harsh Gulags of north-eastern Siberia during the Second World War
The Victims Return
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Author : Stephen F. Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2013-02-28
The Victims Return written by Stephen F. Cohen and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-28 with History categories.
Stalin's reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called 'the other Holocaust'. During the Stalin years, it is thought that more innocent men, women and children perished than in Hitler's destruction of the European Jews. Many millions died in Stalin's Gulag of torture prisons and forced-labour camps, yet others survived and were freed after his death in 1953. This book is the story of the survivors. Long kept secret by Soviet repression and censorship, it is now told by renowned author and historian Stephen F. Cohen, who came to know many former Gulag inmates during his frequent trips to Moscow over a period of thirty years. Based on first-hand interviews with the victims themselves and on newly available materials, Cohen provides a powerful narrative of the survivors' post-Gulag saga, from their liberation and return to Soviet society, to their long struggle to salvage what remained of their shattered lives and to obtain justice. Spanning more than fifty years, "The Victims Return" combines individual stories with the fierce political conflicts that raged, both in society and in the Kremlin, over the victims of the terror and the people who had victimized them. This compelling book will be essential reading for anyone interested in Russian history.
My Journey
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Author : Olga Adamova-Sliozberg
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2011-08-30
My Journey written by Olga Adamova-Sliozberg and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is the first English translation of Olga Adamova-Sliozberg’s mesmerizing My Journey, which was not officially published in Russia until 2002. It is among the best known of Gulag memoirs and was one of the first to become widely available in underground samizdat circulation. Alexander Solzhenitsyn relied heavily upon it when writing Gulag Archipelago, and it remains the best account of the daily life of women in the Soviet prison camps. Arrested along with her husband (who, she would much later learn, was shot the next day) in the great purges of the thirties, Adamova-Sliozberg decided to record her Gulag experiences a year after her arrest, and she “wrote them down in her head” (paper and pencils were not available to prisoners) every night for years. When she returned to Moscow after the war in 1946, she composed the memoir on paper for the first time and then buried it in the garden of the family dacha. After her re-arrest and seven more years of banishment to Kazakhstan, she returned to the dacha to dig up the buried memoir, but could not find it. She sat down and wrote it all over again. In her later years she also added a collection of stories about her family. Concluding on a hopeful note—Adamova-Sliozberg’s record is cleared, she re-marries a fellow former-prisoner, and she is reunited with her children—this story is a stunning account of perseverance in the face of injustice and unimaginable hardship. This vital primary source continues to fascinate anyone interesting in the tumultuous history of Russia and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century.
Gulag
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Author : Anne Applebaum
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2012-08-02
Gulag written by Anne Applebaum and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-02 with History categories.
This landmark book uncovers for the first time in detail one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century: the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless millions. Gulag is the only major history in any language to draw together the mass of memoirs and writings on the Soviet camps that have been published in Russia and the West. Using these, as well as her own original research in NKVD archives and interviews with survivors, Anne Applebaum has written a fully documented history of the camp system: from its origins under the tsars, to its colossal expansion under Stalin's reign of terror, its zenith in the late 1940s and eventual collapse in the era of glasnost. It is a gigantic feat of investigation, synthesis and moral reckoning.
Twenty Years In A Siberian Gulag
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Author : Leonid Petrovich Bolotov
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2020-07-13
Twenty Years In A Siberian Gulag written by Leonid Petrovich Bolotov and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Caught up in one of the many purges that swept the Soviet Union during the Great Terror, Leonid Petrovich Bolotov (1906-1987) was one of 86 engineers arrested at Leningrad's Red Triangle Rubber Factory and sent to the Gulag as "enemies of the people." He would be the only one to survive and return to his family after enduring two decades in the infamous Kolyma labor camps. Translated into English and published here for the first time, Bolotov's memoir narrates with growing intensity his arrest, imprisonment and interrogation, his "confession" and trial, his exile to hard labor in Arctic Siberia, and his rehabilitation in 1956 following the official end of Stalin's personality cult.
Surviving Freedom
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Author : Janusz Bardach
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2003-05-01
Surviving Freedom written by Janusz Bardach and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-01 with History categories.
In 1941, as a Red Army soldier fighting the Nazis on the Belarussian front, Janusz Bardach was arrested, court-martialed, and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. Twenty-two years old, he had committed no crime. He was one of millions swept up in the reign of terror that Stalin perpetrated on his own people. In the critically acclaimed Man Is Wolf to Man, Bardach recounted his horrific experiences in the Kolyma labor camps in northeastern Siberia, the deadliest camps in Stalin’s gulag system. In this sequel Bardach picks up the narrative in March 1946, when he was released. He traces his thousand-mile journey from the northeastern Siberian gold mines to Moscow in the period after the war, when the country was still in turmoil. He chronicles his reunion with his brother, a high-ranking diplomat in the Polish embassy in Moscow; his experiences as a medical student in the Stalinist Soviet Union; and his trip back to his hometown, where he confronts the shattering realization of the toll the war has taken, including the deaths of his wife, parents, and sister. In a trenchant exploration of loss, post-traumatic stress syndrome, and existential loneliness, Bardach plumbs his ordeal with honesty and compassion, affording a literary window into the soul of a Stalinist gulag survivor. Surviving Freedom is his moving account of how he rebuilt his life after tremendous hardship and personal loss. It is also a unique portrait of postwar Stalinist Moscow as seen through the eyes of a person who is both an insider and outsider. Bardach’s journey from prisoner back to citizen and from labor camp to freedom is an inspiring tale of the universal human story of suffering and recovery.
Lives Divided
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Author : Birgitta Gottlieb McGalliard
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2013-06-26
Lives Divided written by Birgitta Gottlieb McGalliard and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Captured by the Soviets in 1944 as he tries to flee across the Turkish border with his fellow diplomats from the German Legation in Sofia, Bulgaria, Roland Gottlieb leaves behind his Swedish-born wife, two young daughters and his newborn baby girl, Birgitta, whom he has yet to see. In Lives Divided, Birgitta shares what life is like for her family before and during World War II and what it is like afterwards growing up in Sweden without her father. For six long years the family lives in uncertainty of where Pappa is in the vast Soviet Gulag, or if he is even alive. Then a returning POW informs them that he had been with Roland Gottlieb in Vorkuta, Siberia just shortly before his own return. With this new evidence, her mother's despair changes to hope, only to be dashed two years later when another POW claims to have buried Gottlieb in the Siberian tundra. With all hope gone, Birgitta's mother is about to remarry when a post card turns their lives upside down again. Lives Divided is a true story of human suffering and endurance, in which a stubborn will to survive triumphs over the horrors of World War II and its aftermath.
Gulag Boss
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Author : Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2010-11-04
Gulag Boss written by Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-04 with History categories.
The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world's eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag. But not until now has there been a memoir of life inside the camps written from the perspective of an actual employee of the Secret police. In this riveting memoir, superbly translated by Deborah Kaple, Fyodor Mochulsky describes being sent to work as a boss at the forced labor camp of Pechorlag in the frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle. Only twenty-two years old, he had but a vague idea of the true nature of the Gulag. What he discovered was a world of unimaginable suffering and death, a world where men were starved, beaten, worked to death, or simply executed. Mochulsky details the horrific conditions in the camps and the challenges facing all those involved, from prisoners to guards. He depicts the power struggles within the camps between the secret police and the communist party, between the political prisoners (most of whom had been arrested for the generic crime of "counter-revolutionary activities") and the criminal convicts. And because Mochulsky writes of what he witnessed with the detachment of the engineer that he was, readers can easily understand how a system that destroyed millions of lives could be run by ordinary Soviet citizens who believed they were advancing the cause of socialism. Mochulsky remained a communist party member his entire life--he would later become a diplomat--but was deeply troubled by the gap between socialist theory and the Soviet reality of slave labor and mass murder. This unprecedented memoir takes readers into that reality and sheds new light on one of the most harrowing tragedies of the 20th century.
The Gulag Archipelago 1918 1956
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Author : Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
language : en
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Release Date : 2002-02-01
The Gulag Archipelago 1918 1956 written by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn and has been published by Harper Perennial Modern Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-02-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners and Soviet archives, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn reveals the entire apparatus of Soviet repression -- the state within the state that ruled all-powerfully. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims -- men, women, and children -- we encounter secret police operations, labor camps and prisons; the uprooting or extermination of whole populations, the "welcome" that awaited Russian soldiers who had been German prisoners of war. Yet we also witness the astounding moral courage of the incorruptible, who, defenseless, endured great brutality and degradation. The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 -- a grisly indictment of a regime, fashioned here into a veritable literary miracle -- has now been updated with a new introduction that includes the fall of the Soviet Union and Solzhenitsyn's move back to Russia.
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2
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Author : Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2020-10-27
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2 written by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-27 with History categories.
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. “The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.” —George F. Kennan “It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker “Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece. . . . The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today.” —Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History, from the foreword