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



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Autore: Bardach Janusz Visualizza persona
Titolo: Surviving freedom [[electronic resource] ] : after the Gulag / / Janusz Bardach and Kathleen Gleeson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (295 p.)
Disciplina: 947.085/092
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Soggetto topico: Jews - Soviet Union
Jews, Polish - Soviet Union
Plastic surgeons - Soviet Union
Political prisoners - Soviet Union
Soggetto non controllato: belarussian front
biography
citizen
court martial
dictator
diplomacy
diplomat
freedom
gold mines
grief
gulag
hard labor
healing
injured soldier
kolyma
labor camps
loss
medical student
memoir
military
moscow
nazis
nonfiction
polish embassy
political prisoner
postwar moscow
postwar russia
prison system
prisoner of war
prisoner
ptsd
recovery
red army
redemption
repression
russia
russian history
siberia
soldier
soviet union
stalin
stalinist moscow
stalinist russia
suffering
ussr
war hero
Altri autori: GleesonKathleen  
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Surviving freedom  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-75919-1
9786612759192
0-520-92984-5
1-59734-926-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910783158503321
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