My father's letters : correspondence from the Soviet Gulag / the 'Memorial' International Historical, Educational, Human Rights and Charitable Society ; edited by Alena Kozlova, Nikolai Mikhailov, Irina Ostrovskaya and Svetlana Fadeeva ; foreword by Irina Scherbakova ; afterword by Ludmila Ulitskaya ; translated from the Russian by Georgia Thomson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kozlova, Alena, editor.

Mikhaĭlov, Nikolaĭ, editor.

Ostrovskai︠a︡, Irina, editor.

Fadeeva, Svetlana, editor.

Scherbakova, Irina, writer of foreword.

Ulit︠s︡kai︠a︡, Li︠u︡dmila, writer of afterword.

Thomson (Ga.), translator.

Pravozashchitnyĭ t︠s︡entr "Memorial" (Moscow, Russia)

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Political prisoners--Soviet Union--Correspondence.

Political prisoners.

Fathers.

Soviet Union.

Internment camp inmates--Soviet Union--Correspondence.

Internment camp inmates.

Nazi concentration camp inmates--Soviet Union--Correspondence.

Nazi concentration camp inmates.

Fathers--Soviet Union--Correspondence.

Prisons--Soviet Union.

Prisons.

Internment camps--Soviet Union.

Internment camps.

Nazi concentration camps.

Genre:

Correspondence.

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

xxi, 280 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Granta, 2021.

Summary:

"Between the 1930s and 1950s, millions of people were sent to the Gulag in the Soviet Union. My Father's Letters tells the stories of 16 men - mostly members of the intelligentsia, and loyal Soviet subjects - who were imprisoned in the Gulag camps, through the letters they sent back to their wives and children. Here are letters illustrated by fathers keen to educate their children in science and natural history; the tragic missives of a former military man convinced that the terrible mistake of his arrest will be rectified; the 'letter' stitched on a bedsheet with a fishbone and smuggled out of a maximum security camp. My Father's Letters is an immediate source of life in prison during Stalin's Great Terror. Almost none of the men writing these letters survived"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: `I can't read my father's letters without sobbing' / Mikhail Stroikov

`Pass on my enthusiasm to her' / Alexei Vangenheim

`Your incorrigible Trotskyist father' / Mikhail Bodrov

`I believe in our children' / Yevgeny Yablokov

`From Father

- a letter to Alyona about a plucky postman ...' / Victor Lunyov

`Papa, can you hear me?' / Mikhail Lebedev

`I think about you all the time' / Ivan Sukhanov

`My first thought when I wake, and last when I fall asleep, is of you, my darling daughter.' / Boris Shustov

`If these few pages can help you to find your way in life, I will be very happy indeed.' / Gavriil Gordon

`I have only one wish - to see you again, and then die. I need nothing more.' / Vladimir Levitsky

`... not to disappear completely from the face of the Earth / Friedrich Krause

`The picture of my father conjured up by my memory ...' / Samuil Tieits

`Do you know what saved me? Letters. The connection with home.' / Armin Stromberg

`Just don't you, or our little son, forget me' / Nikolai Lyubchenko

`I loved you more than life.' / Anatoly Kozlovsky

`My dearest daddy / Victor Mamaladze.

Notes:

Translated from the Russian.

ISBN:

9781783785285

1783785284

OCLC:

1233316509