LEADER 04024nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910964082203321 005 20240416160643.0 010 $a9780817915766 010 $a0817915761 010 $a9780817915780 010 $a0817915788 035 $a(CKB)2550000001132872 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301918 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1370707 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301918 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748105 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL532581 035 $a(OCoLC)856935263 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1370707 035 $a(OCoLC)859581817 035 $a(Perlego)1354116 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001132872 100 $a20121113d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWomen of the Gulag $eportraits of five remarkable lives /$fPaul R. Gregory 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aStanford, Calif. $cHoover Institution Press$d2013 215 $axiii, 246 p. $cill., maps, ports 225 1 $aHoover Institution Press publication ;$vno. 631 311 08$a9780817915742 311 08$a0817915745 311 08$a9781306013307 311 08$a1306013305 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTerror's human face -- Stalin : struggles and successes -- Agnessa : elite NKVD wife -- Maria : portrait of the new Soviet family -- Evgenia : luxury with a beast -- Adile : princess bride of Abkhazia -- Fekla : child of the kulaks -- Stalin : the storm descends -- Agnessa : crashing a funeral -- Stalin : launching the great terror -- Agnessa : the purge spreads far and wide -- Maria : a narrow escape -- Evgenia : socialist realist -- Adile : the master will not abandon us -- Fekla : becoming a Bolshevik -- Stalin : the master needs a scapegoat -- Agnessa : new year's eve with the Master -- Maria : wife of a traitor to the motherland -- Evgenia : losing everything -- Adile : return and arrest -- Fekla : face of the future -- Aftermath. 330 $aDuring the course of three decades, Joseph Stalin's Gulag, a vast network of forced labor camps and settlements, held many millions of prisoners. People in every corner of the Soviet Union lived in daily terror of imprisonment and execution. In researching the surviving threads of memoirs and oral reminiscences of five women victimized by the Gulag, author Paul R. Gregory has stitched together a collection of stories from the female perspective, a view in short supply. Capturing the fear, paranoia, and unbearable hardship that were hallmarks of Stalin's Great Terror, Gregory relates the stories of five women from different social strata and regions in vivid prose, from their pre-Gulag lives, through their struggles to survive in the repressive atmosphere of the late 1930s and early 1940s, to the difficulties facing the four who survived as they adjusted to life after the Gulag. These firsthand accounts illustrate how even the wrong word could become a crime against the state. The book begins with a synopsis of Stalin's rise to power, the roots of the Gulag, and the scheming and plotting that led to and persisted in one of the bloodiest, most egregious dictatorships of the 20th century. 410 0$aHoover Institution Press publication ;$v631. 606 $aWomen political prisoners$zSoviet Union$vBiography 606 $aPolitical persecution$zSoviet Union 606 $aInternment camps$zSoviet Union 606 $aPrisons$zSoviet Union 606 $aForced labor$zSoviet Union 607 $aSoviet Union$xHistory$y1925-1953 615 0$aWomen political prisoners 615 0$aPolitical persecution 615 0$aInternment camps 615 0$aPrisons 615 0$aForced labor 676 $a365/.45092520947 700 $aGregory$b Paul R$0119311 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910964082203321 996 $aWomen of the Gulag$94358053 997 $aUNINA