Keeping faith with the Party [[electronic resource] ] : Communist believers return from the Gulag / / Nanci Adler

• Autore: Adler Nanci
• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (259 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.80947
• Soggetto topico: Ex-convicts - Soviet Union; Ex-convicts - Soviet Union - Attitudes; Allegiance - Soviet Union; Political persecution - Soviet Union; Labor camps - Soviet Union; Communism - Soviet Union - Psychological aspects
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: enduring repression -- The Gulag prisoner and the Bolshevik soul -- Reconciling the self with the system -- Beyond belief: party identification and the "bright future" -- Striving for a "happy ending": attempts to rehabilitate socialism -- The legacies of the repression -- Epilogue: the "bright past," or whose (hi)story?.
• Sommario/riassunto: How is it that some prisoners of the Soviet gulag-many of them falsely convicted-emerged from the camps maintaining their loyalty to the party that was responsible for their internment? In camp, they had struggled to survive. Afterward they struggled to reintegrate with society, reunite with their loved ones, and sometimes renew Party ties. Based on oral histories, archives, and unpublished memoirs, Keeping Faith with the Party chronicles the stories of returnees who professed enduring belief in the CPSU and the Communist project. Nanci Adler's probing investigation brings a deeper understa
• Titolo autorizzato: Keeping faith with the Party
• ISBN: 1-280-12583-7; 9786613529695; 0-253-00571-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828455403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II