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Arrested voices : resurrecting the disappeared writers of the Soviet regime / Vitaly Shentalinsky ; translated by John Crowfoot ; introduction by Robert Conquest.
Van Pelt Library PG2991.4 .S4813 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shentalinskiĭ, Vitaliĭ.
- Standardized Title:
- Parole ressuscitée. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Authors, Russian--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, Russian.
- Dissenters--Soviet Union--Biography.
- Dissenters.
- Soviet Union.
- Political persecution--Soviet Union.
- Political persecution.
- Soviet Union--History.
- History.
- Politics and literature--Soviet Union.
- Politics and literature.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Martin Kessler Books, Free Press, [1996]
- Summary:
- Until glasnost, the fates of Soviet Russia's most prominent writers lat hidden in the KGB files bearing their names. Shentalinsky opened the files to find detailed reports describing how these writers--including Isaac Babel and Maxim Gorky--were arrested, tortured, falsely accused of crimes, imprisoned in gulag camps, or secretly executed. of photos.
- Notes:
- Published in Great Britain under title: The KGB's literary archive.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 068482776X
- OCLC:
- 34113255
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