Gulag voices : an anthology

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Title:

Author:

Applebaum, Anne, 1964-

Publication Information:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2011]

Physical Description:

xv, 195 pages ; 22 cm.

Series:

Annals of Communism series

Annals of Communism.

Summary:

Collects the writings of a diverse group of people who survived imprisonment in the Gulag, recounting their experiences and relationships, and offering insight into the psychological aspects of life in the camps.

Language:

English

Contents:

Arrest / Dmitry S. Likhachev -- Interrogation / Alexander Dolgun -- The Kolyma tram / Elena Glinka -- A day in Labor Corrective Camp No. 21 / Kazimierz Zarod -- On work / Anatoly Zhigulin -- On faith / Nina Gagen-Torn -- Promotion / Isaak Filshtinsky -- My child / Hava Volovich -- The house of meetings / Gustav Herling -- Informers / Lev Kopelev -- Jailers / Lev Razgon -- The cooler / Anatoly Marchenko -- Liberation / K. Petrus.

Corporate Subject:

Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitelʹno-trudovykh lagereĭ OGPU -- History.

Subject Term:

Prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Biography.

Political prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Biography.

Prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Social conditions.

Political prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Social conditions.

Forced labor -- Soviet Union -- History.

Concentration camps -- Soviet Union -- History.

Geographic Term:

Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953 -- Biography.

Soviet Union -- History -- 1953-1985 -- Biography.