Enemies of the state : personal stories from the Gulag / edited with an introduction by Donald T. Critchlow and Agnieszka Critchlow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Critchlow, Donald T., 1948-

Critchlow, Agnieszka.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisoners--Communist countries--Biography.

Prisoners.

Political persecution--Communist countries.

Political persecution.

Nazi concentration camps--Communist countries.

Nazi concentration camps.

Internment camps--Communist countries.

Internment camps.

Communist countries.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 276 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, [2002]

Summary:

"Gulag" literature emerged in the late 1930s and developed throughout the cold war. Books by survivors revealed in graphic detail the systematic implementation of a totalitarian police state that induced terror in its citizens through torture, imprisonment in slave labor camps, and death. In Enemies of the State, Donald Critchlow has selected excerpts from nine of the most widely read books from tiffs powerful genre. The literature reinforced among American anti-Communists the idea of an apocalyptic struggle between communism and Western Christendom.

Contents:

The God that failed in Siberia: a tale of a disillusioned woman / Elinor Lipper

An American's tale / John H. Noble

A professor's tale from Ukraine / Nicholas Prychodko

A Christian in Bucharest: the voice of the martyred / Richard Wurmbrand

The purge: the tale of Hungarian communist / Bela Szasz

Nightmare from the red chamber: a tale from Communist China / Robert Loh

A priest's tale about faith in hell / Harold William Rigney

Prisoner in paradise: a Cuban's tale / John Martino

A tale of mistaken identity in Vietnam / Doan Van Toai and David Chanoff

A kind of torture: a tale from the Chinese cultural revolution / Nien Cheng.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1566634563

OCLC:

50004532