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Silence was salvation : child survivors of Stalin's terror and World War II in the Soviet Union / Cathy A. Frierson.
LIBRA DK268.A1 F75 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frierson, Cathy A.
- Series:
- Annals of Communism
- Annals of communism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political prisoners--Soviet Union--Interviews.
- Political prisoners.
- Political prisoners--Soviet Union--Biography.
- Communism--Social aspects.
- Communism.
- Political purges.
- History.
- Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union--Politics and government--1936-1953.
- Politics and government.
- Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.
- Stalin, Joseph.
- Political purges--Soviet Union--History.
- World War, 1939-1945--Soviet Union.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Soviet Union--Social conditions--1917-1945.
- Social conditions.
- Soviet Union--Social conditions--1945-1991.
- Communism--Social aspects--Soviet Union.
- Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953.
- Political science.
- Social history.
- Local Subjects:
- Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 267 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- Introduction: I survived. I speak
- "If you are interested in this kind of detail, I have remembered for all these years the smell of the perfume she was wearing and the color of her blouse": Aleksandr Yudelevich Zakgeim
- "And we began to live there in twenty-six square meters; there were thirteen of us": Inna Aronovna Shikheeva-Gaister
- "I, you understand, for my generation,...we have the psychology of persons devoted to society. we can't separate ourselves from society": Andrei Ivanovich Vorobyov
- "I would ride as far as Karabas Station, but then, I don't recall, I had to go about fifty-sixty kilometers on foot": Valentin Tikhonovich Muravsky
- "Silence was salvation. That's what I knew": Irina Andreevna Dubrovina
- "I was so overjoyed that I had found you": Vera Mikhailovna Kostina/Vera Yulyanovna Skiba
- "The feeling of loneliness has stalked me always": Tamara Nikolaevna Morozova
- "I had a completely non-Soviet worldview": Aleksandr Nikolaevich Kozyrev
- "I have dreamed my entire life, for me this would be a great joy to find my relatives": Maya Rudolfovna Levitina
- "Well, probably, essentially, they destroyed my life, of course": Vladimir Valerianovich Timofeev.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300179453
- 0300179456
- OCLC:
- 877369663
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