1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783158503321

Autore

Bardach Janusz

Titolo

Surviving freedom [[electronic resource] ] : after the Gulag / / Janusz Bardach and Kathleen Gleeson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003

ISBN

1-282-75919-1

9786612759192

0-520-92984-5

1-59734-926-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GleesonKathleen

Disciplina

947.085/092

B

Soggetti

Jews - Soviet Union

Jews, Polish - Soviet Union

Plastic surgeons - Soviet Union

Political prisoners - Soviet Union

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PROLOGUE -- 1. VIEW FROM THE EMBASSY WINDOW -- 2. WAITING FOR TOMORROW -- 3. JOURNEY TO THE PAST -- 4. THE HOUSE ON THE HILL -- 5. FARNA STREET -- 6. NO MAN'S LAND -- 7. LYING AND CHEATING -- 8. GUARDIAN OF THE DEAD -- 9. MARCHING ON RED SQUARE -- 10. FIRST FINAL EXAMS -- 11. POSTWAR POLAND -- 12. FAMILY OF FRIENDS -- 13. SUMMER 1947 -- 14. FINDING MY WAY -- 15. ENEMIES EVERYWHERE -- 16. COMING INTO MY OWN -- 17. ASPIRANTURA -- 18. LOWER THAN GRASS, QUIETER THAN STILL WATER -- 19. THE END OF TERROR -- EPILOGUE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Sommario/riassunto

In 1941, as a Red Army soldier fighting the Nazis on the Belarussian front, Janusz Bardach was arrested, court-martialed, and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. Twenty-two years old, he had committed no crime. He was one of millions swept up in the reign of terror that Stalin perpetrated on his own people. In the critically acclaimed Man Is Wolf to Man, Bardach recounted his horrific experiences in the Kolyma labor



camps in northeastern Siberia, the deadliest camps in Stalin's gulag system. In this sequel Bardach picks up the narrative in March 1946, when he was released. He traces his thousand-mile journey from the northeastern Siberian gold mines to Moscow in the period after the war, when the country was still in turmoil. He chronicles his reunion with his brother, a high-ranking diplomat in the Polish embassy in Moscow; his experiences as a medical student in the Stalinist Soviet Union; and his trip back to his hometown, where he confronts the shattering realization of the toll the war has taken, including the deaths of his wife, parents, and sister. In a trenchant exploration of loss, post-traumatic stress syndrome, and existential loneliness, Bardach plumbs his ordeal with honesty and compassion, affording a literary window into the soul of a Stalinist gulag survivor. Surviving Freedom is his moving account of how he rebuilt his life after tremendous hardship and personal loss. It is also a unique portrait of postwar Stalinist Moscow as seen through the eyes of a person who is both an insider and outsider. Bardach's journey from prisoner back to citizen and from labor camp to freedom is an inspiring tale of the universal human story of suffering and recovery.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484562003321

Titolo

Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management : 17th International Conference, INAP 2007, and 21st Workshop on Logic Programming, WLP 2007, Würzburg, Germany, October 4-6, 2007, Revised Selected Papers / / edited by Dietmar Seipel, Michael Hanus, Armin Wolf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2009

ISBN

9783642006753

3642006752

Edizione

[1st ed. 2009.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 253 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, , 2945-9141 ; ; 5437

Altri autori (Persone)

SeipelDietmar

HanusMichael

WolfArmin

Disciplina

005.13

Soggetti

Compilers (Computer programs)

Artificial intelligence

Computer programming

Compilers and Interpreters

Artificial Intelligence

Programming Techniques

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

International conference proceedings.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Invited Talk -- A Guide for Manual Construction of Difference-List Procedures -- Constraints -- Linear Weighted-Task-Sum – Scheduling Prioritized Tasks on a Single Resource -- Efficient Edge-Finding on Unary Resources with Optional Activities -- Encoding of Planning Problems and Their Optimizations in Linear Logic -- Constraint-Based Timetabling System for the German University in Cairo -- Databases and Data Mining -- Squash: A Tool for Analyzing, Tuning and Refactoring Relational Database Applications -- Relational Models for Tabling Logic Programs in a Database -- Integrating XQuery and Logic Programming -- Causal Subgroup Analysis for Detecting Confounding -- Using Declarative Specifications of Domain Knowledge for



Descriptive Data Mining -- Extensions of Logic Programming -- Integrating Temporal Annotations in a Modular Logic Language -- Visual Generalized Rule Programming Model for Prolog with Hybrid Operators -- The Kiel Curry System KiCS -- Narrowing for First Order Functional Logic Programs with Call-Time Choice Semantics -- Java Type Unification with Wildcards -- System Demonstrations -- Testing Relativised Uniform Equivalence under Answer-Set Projection in the System cc??? -- spock: A Debugging Support Tool for Logic Programs under the Answer-Set Semantics.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management, INAP 2007, and the 21st Workshop on Logic Programming, WLP 2007, held in Würzburg, Germany, during October 4-6, 2007. The 16 thoroughly revised full papers presented together with 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The topics covered are constraints; databases and data mining; extensions of logic programming; and system demonstrations.