Jacques the Frenchman : memories of the Gulag / Jacques Rossi and Michèle Sarde ; edited by Golfo Alexopoulos ; translated by Kersti Colombant ; preface by Michael David-Fox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rossi, Jacques, author.

Sarde, Michèle, author.

Contributor:

Alexopoulos, Golfo, editor.

Standardized Title:

Jacques, le Français. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Rossi, Jacques.

Political prisoners--Soviet Union--Biography.

Political prisoners.

Soviet Union.

Internment camps--Soviet Union.

Internment camps.

Political persecution--Soviet Union.

Political persecution.

Soviet Union--History--1925-1953.

History.

Nazi concentration camps.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xviii, 346 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Jacques Rossi is one of Stalin's most well-known victims. Author of The Gulag Handbook, a fascinating encyclopedia of the Soviet forced labor camps, Rossi spent twenty years in interrogation, prison, and Gulag detention. Born to a prominent Polish father and French mother, the young Jacques became attracted to communism as a blueprint for radical social reform. He spent years in the communist underground in interwar Europe, agitating for the revolution, but he was arrested during Stalin's Great Purges in 1937. This book represents a conversation between Jacques Rossi and Michèle Sarde, professor emerita at Georgetown University, and weaves together personal reflections and historical analysis."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Translation of: Jacques, le Français.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1487524064

9781487524067

9781487506049

148750604X

OCLC:

1089980111