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.

Allegiance--Soviet Union.

Allegiance.

Political persecution--Soviet Union.

Political persecution.

Labor camps--Soviet Union.

Labor camps.

Communism--Soviet Union--Psychological aspects.

Communism.

Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

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 Based on oral histories, archives, and unpublished memoirs, Keeping Faith with the Party chronicles the stories of returnees who professed enduring belief in the CPSU and the Communist project.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 understa

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613529695

9781280125836

1280125837

9780253005717

025300571X

OCLC:

785775736