Keeping faith with the Party : Communist believers return from the Gulag / Nanci Adler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adler, Nanci.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ex-convicts--Soviet Union.

Ex-convicts.

Ex-convicts--Soviet Union--Attitudes.

Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za.

Kommunisticheskai͡a partii͡a Sovetskogo Soi͡uza.

Allegiance--Soviet Union.

Allegiance.

Political persecution--Soviet Union.

Political persecution.

Communism.

Psychological aspects.

Labor camps.

Soviet Union.

Labor camps--Soviet Union.

Communism--Soviet Union--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

xvii, 237 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2012], ©2012.

Summary:

How is it that some prisoners of the Soviet Gulag-many of them falsely convicted-emerged from the camps maintaining their loyalty to the Party that was responsible for their internment? In camp, they had struggled to survive. Afterward they struggled to reintegrate with society, reunite with their loved ones, and sometimes renew Party ties. Based on oral histories, archives, and unpublished memoirs, Keeping Faith with the Party chronicles the stories of returnees who professed enduring belief in the CPSU and the Communist project. Nanci Adler's probing investigation brings a deeper understanding of the dynamics of Soviet Communism and of how individuals survive within repressive regimes while the repressive regimes also survive within them. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: enduring repression

The Gulag prisoner and the Bolshevik soul

Reconciling the self with the system

Beyond belief: party identification and the "bright future"

Striving for a "happy ending": attempts to rehabilitate socialism

The legacies of the repression

Epilogue: the "bright past," or whose (hi)story?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-221) and index.

ISBN:

9780253357229

0253357225

9780253223791

0253223792

9780253005717

025300571X

OCLC:

712119578