Survival As Victory : Ukrainian Women in the Gulag.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kis, Oksana.

Series:

Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies

Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies ; v.80

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

GULag NKVD.

Internment camps--Soviet Union.

Internment camps.

Prisoners--Soviet Union.

Prisoners.

Prisoners--Ukraine.

Prisons--Soviet Union.

Prisons.

Women internment camp inmates--Soviet Union.

Women internment camp inmates.

Women internment camp inmates--Ukraine.

Women prisoners--Soviet Union.

Women prisoners.

Women prisoners--Ukraine.

Women, Ukrainian--Soviet Union.

Women, Ukrainian.

Soviet Union--History--1925-1953.

Soviet Union.

Ukraine.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (653 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

English; translated from the Ukrainian.

Summary:

Of the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian women were sentenced to the Gulag in the 1940s and 1950s, only half survived. In Survival as Victory, Oksana Kis has produced the first anthropological study of daily life in the Soviet forced labor camps as experienced by Ukrainian women prisoners. Based on the written memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories of over 150 survivors, this book fills a lacuna in the scholarship regarding Ukrainian experience. Kis details the women’s resistance to the brutality of camp conditions not only through the preservation of customs and traditions from everyday home life, but also through the frequent elision of regional and confessional differences. Following the groundbreaking work of Anne Applebaum’s Gulag: A History (2003), this book is a must-read for anyone interested in gendered strategies of survival, accommodation, and resistance to the dehumanizing effects of the Gulag.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION, NAMES, AND CERTAIN TERMS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1. THE DAILY LIFE OF WOMEN IN THE GULAG IN RESEARCH AND PERSONAL MEMOIRS

CHAPTER 2. LIVING CONDITIONS IN PRISONS AND CAMPS IN THE 1940S AND 1950S

CHAPTER 3. NATIONAL IDENTITY AND CHRISTIAN FAITH DURING IMPRISONMENT

CHAPTER 4. CREATIVITY AND FREE TIME

CHAPTER 5. HUMANITY AND FEMININITY IN CAPTIVITY

CHAPTER 6. BODY, SEXUALITY, AND LOVE

CHAPTER 7. MOTHERHOOD BEHIND BARS: A CURSED BLESSING

CONCLUSIONS

APPENDICES

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Kis, Oksana Survival As Victory

ISBN:

0-674-25834-7

OCLC:

1312725762