Gulag voices : an anthology / edited by Anne Applebaum.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Applebaum, Anne, 1964-

Series:

Annals of Communism.

Annals of Communism series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitelʹno-trudovykh lagereĭ OGPU--History.

Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitelʹno-trudovykh lagereĭ OGPU.

Internment camps--Soviet Union--History.

Internment camps.

Forced labor--Soviet Union--History.

Forced labor.

Political prisoners--Soviet Union--Biography.

Political prisoners.

Political prisoners--Soviet Union--Social conditions.

Prisoners--Soviet Union--Biography.

Prisoners.

Prisoners--Soviet Union--Social conditions.

Soviet Union--History--1925-1953--Biography.

Soviet Union.

Soviet Union--History--1953-1985--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Anne Applebaum wields her considerable knowledge of a dark chapter in human history and presents a collection of the writings of survivors of the Gulag, the Soviet concentration camps. Although the opening of the Soviet archives to scholars has made it possible to write the history of this notorious concentration camp system, documents tell only one side of the story. Gulag Voices now fills in the other half. The backgrounds of the writers reflect the extraordinary diversity of the Gulag itself. Here are the personal stories of such figures as Dmitri Likhachev, a renowned literary scholar; Anatoly Marchenko, the son of illiterate laborers; and Alexander Dolgun, an American citizen. These remembrances-many of them appearing in English for the first time, each chosen for both literary and historical value-collectively spotlight the strange moral universe of the camps, as well as the relationships that prisoners had with one another, with their guards, and with professional criminals who lived beside them. A vital addition to the literature of this era, annotated for a generation that no longer remembers the Soviet Union, Gulag Voices will inform, interest, and inspire, offering a source for reflection on human nature itself.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction

1. Dmitry S. Likhachev Arrest

2. Alexander Dolgun Interrogation

3. Elena Glinka The Kolyma Tram

4. Kazimierz Zarod A Day In Labor Corrective Camp No. 21

5. Anatoly Zhigulin On Work

6. Nina Gagen-Torn On Faith

7. Isaak Filshtinsky Promotion

8. Hava Volovich My Child

9. Gustav Herling The House Of Meetings

10. Lev Kopelev Informers

11. Lev Razgon Jailers

12. Anatoly Marchenko The Cooler

13. K. Petrus Liberation

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-283-09609-9

9786613096098

0-300-16012-7

OCLC:

1024055452