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From the gulag to the killing fields : personal accounts of political violence and repression in communist states / edited by Paul Hollander.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political persecution--Communist countries.
- Political persecution.
- Political violence--Communist countries.
- Political violence.
- Civil rights and socialism--Communist countries.
- Civil rights and socialism.
- Political crimes and offenses--Communist countries.
- Political crimes and offenses.
- Communist countries.
- Physical Description:
- lxxviii, 760 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Wilmington, DE : ISI Books, 2006.
- Summary:
- Edited by a renowned scholar of communism, this volume gathers together more than 40 dramatic personal memoirs of communist violence and repression from political prisoners across the globe.
- Contents:
- Editor's Introduction: The Distinctive Features of Repression in Communist States xv
- The Soviet Union
- Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag / Janusz Bardach 3
- Russian Purge and the Extraction of Confession / F. Beck, W. Godin 21
- To Build a Castle / Vladimir Bukovsky 39
- Journey into the Whirlwind / Eugenia Ginzburg 53
- Tell the West / Jerzy Gliksman 66
- A World Apart / Gustav Herling 80
- This I Cannot Forget / Anna Larina 104
- My Testimony / Anatoly Marchenko 120
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 137
- Eastern Europe
- Albania
- The Last Days of Freedom / Nika Stajka 151
- Bulgaria
- The Truth That Killed / Georgi Markov 169
- Voices from the Gulag / Tzvetan Todorov 183
- Czechoslovakia
- The Confession / Arthur London 193
- My Mind on Trial / Eugene Loebl 214
- East Germany
- The Stasi / Mike Dennis 234
- Hungary
- Political Prisoner / Paul Ignotus 255
- The Undefeated / Gyorgy Paloczi-Horvath 268
- Poland
- A Prisoner of Martial Law / Jan Mur 277
- Romania
- The Silent Escape: Three Thousand Days in Romanian Prisons / Lena Constante 286
- Yugoslavia
- Goli Otok: Island of Death / Venko Markowski 303
- China
- Mandarin Red / James Cameron 319
- Prisoner of Mao / Bao Ruo-Wang 324
- Bitter Winds: A Memoir of My Years in China's Gulag / Harry Wu 345
- Red in Tooth and Claw: Twenty-Six Years in Communist Chinese Prisons / Pu Ning 364
- Jiuzhen Prison-A Tibetan Account / Tenzin Choedrak 382
- Q1-A Twentieth-Century Bastille / Wei Jingsheng 393
- Born Red / Gao Yuan 402
- Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk / Palden Gyatso 414
- Cambodia
- A Cambodian Odyssey / Haing Ngor 439
- To Destroy You Is No Loss / JoAn D. Criddle, Teeda Butt Mam 448
- Stay Alive, My Son / Pin Yathay 465
- Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields / Dith Pran (compiler) 478
- Vietnam
- South Wind Changing / Jade Ngoc Quang Hu'ynh 503
- Hearts of Sorrow / James M. Freeman (editor) 513
- The Vietnamese Gulag / Doan Van Toai, David Chanoff 533
- Lost Years: My 1,632 Days in Vietnamese Reeducation Camps / Tran Tri Vu 549
- Cuba
- Before Night Falls / Reinaldo Arenas 569
- The Politics of Psychiatry in Revolutionary Cuba / Charles J. Brown, Armando M. Lago (editors) 584
- Against All Hope / Armando Valladares 603
- Twenty Years and Forty Days: Life in a Cuban Prison / Jorge Valls 628
- Nicaragua
- The Civil War in Nicaragua / Roger Miranda, William Ratliff 655
- Fleeing Their Homeland: A Report on the Testimony of Nicaraguan Refugees 666
- North Korea
- The Aquariums of Pyongyang / Kang Chol-Hwan 683
- Ethiopia
- Breakfast in Hell / Myles F. Harris 701
- Red Tears / D. W. Giorgis 715.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references ([737]-760).
- ISBN:
- 1932236783
- OCLC:
- 68129552
- Publisher Number:
- 9781932236781
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