LEADER 05272nam 2200745 450 001 9910820529203321 005 20230725055423.0 010 $a1-5017-5725-3 010 $a1-60909-007-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501757259 035 $a(CKB)3710000000274813 035 $a(EBL)3382585 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001339527 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11832906 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001339527 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11372396 035 $a(PQKB)11072705 035 $a(OCoLC)795651151 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29663 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3382585 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10950069 035 $a(OCoLC)923310993 035 $a(DE-B1597)572386 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501757259 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3382585 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000274813 100 $a20141016h20102010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMemoir of a Gulag actress /$fTamara Petkevich ; translated by Yasha Klots and Ross Ufberg ; foreword by Joshua Rubenstein ; Julia Fauci, design 210 1$aDeKalb, Illinois :$cNorthern Illinois University Press,$d2010. 210 4$dİ2010 215 $a1 online resource (495 p.) 225 0 $aNIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-87580-428-4 327 $a""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Translators' Note""; ""Chapter 1""; ""Chapter 2""; ""Chapter 3""; ""Chapter 4""; ""Chapter 5""; ""Chapter 6""; ""Chapter 7""; ""Chapter 8""; ""Chapter 9""; ""Chapter 10""; ""Chapter 11""; ""Chapter 12""; ""Chapter 13""; ""In Place of an Epilogue""; ""Glossary""; ""Index"" 330 $aIn an abridged translation that retains the grace and passion of the original, Klots and Ufberg present the stunning memoir of a young woman who became an actress in the Gulag. Tamara Petkevich had a relatively privileged childhood in the beautiful, impoverished Petrograd of the Soviet regime's early years, but when her father?a fervent believer in the Communist ideal?was arrested, 17-year-old Tamara was branded a "daughter of the enemy of the people." She kept up a search for her father while struggling to support her mother and two sisters, finish school, and enter university. Shortly before the Russian outbreak of World War II, Petkevich was forced to quit school and, against her better judgment, she married an exiled man whom she had met in the lines at the information bureau of the NKVD (People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs). Her mother and one sister perished in the Nazi siege of Leningrad, and Petkevich was herself arrested. With cinematic detail, Petkevich relates her attempts to defend herself against absurd charges of having a connection to the Leningrad terrorist center, counter-revolutionary propaganda, and anti-Semitism that resulted in a sentence of seven years' hard labor in the Gulag. While Petkevich became a professional actress in her own right years after her release from the Gulag, she learned her craft on the stages of the camps scattered across the northern Komi Republic. The existence of prisoner theaters and troupes of political prisoners such as the one Petkevich joined is a little-known fact of Gulag life. Petkevich's depiction not only provides a unique firsthand account of this world within a world but also testifies to the power of art to literally save lives. As Petkevich moves from one form of hardship to another she retains her desire to live and her ability to love. More than a firsthand record of atrocities committed in Stalinist Russia, Memoir of a Gulag Actress is an invaluable source of information on the daily life and culture of the Soviet Union at the time. Russian literature about the Gulag remains vastly underepresented in the United States, and Petkevich's unforgettable memoir will go a long way toward filling this gap. Supplemented with photographs from the author's personal archive, Petkevich's story will be of great interest to general readers, while providing an important resource for historians, political scientists, and students of Russian culture and history. 606 $aPolitical persecution$zSoviet Union$xHistory 606 $aWomen political prisoners$zSoviet Union$vBiography 606 $aPolitical prisoners$zSoviet Union$vBiography 606 $aActresses$zSoviet Union$vBiography 607 $aSoviet Union$xHistory$y1925-1953$vBiography 607 $aSoviet Union$xPolitics and government$y1936-1953 610 $aTamara Petkevich, Nazi siege of Leningrad, Gulag, prisoner theaters and troupes, atrocities committed in Stalinist Russia, Russian literature about the Gulag. 615 0$aPolitical persecution$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen political prisoners 615 0$aPolitical prisoners 615 0$aActresses 676 $a365/.45092 700 $aPetkevich$b T. V$g(Tamara Vladimirovna),$01610352 702 $aKlots$b Yasha 702 $aUfberg$b Ross 702 $aRubenstein$b Joshua 702 $aFauci$b Julia 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820529203321 996 $aMemoir of a Gulag actress$93938082 997 $aUNINA