Gulag voices : an anthology / / edited by Anne Applebaum

• Autore: Anne Applebaum
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
• Disciplina: 365/.45092247
• Soggetto topico: Internment camps - Soviet Union - History; Forced labor - Soviet Union - History; Political prisoners - Soviet Union; Political prisoners - Soviet Union - Social conditions; Prisoners - Soviet Union; Prisoners - Soviet Union - Social conditions
• Soggetto geografico: Soviet Union History 1925-1953 Biography; Soviet Union History 1953-1985 Biography
• Altri autori: ApplebaumAnne <1964->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Dmitry S. Likhachev Arrest -- 2. Alexander Dolgun Interrogation -- 3. Elena Glinka The Kolyma Tram -- 4. Kazimierz Zarod A Day In Labor Corrective Camp No. 21 -- 5. Anatoly Zhigulin On Work -- 6. Nina Gagen-Torn On Faith -- 7. Isaak Filshtinsky Promotion -- 8. Hava Volovich My Child -- 9. Gustav Herling The House Of Meetings -- 10. Lev Kopelev Informers -- 11. Lev Razgon Jailers -- 12. Anatoly Marchenko The Cooler -- 13. K. Petrus Liberation -- Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: Anne Applebaum wields her considerable knowledge of a dark chapter in human history and presents a collection of the writings of survivors of the Gulag, the Soviet concentration camps. Although the opening of the Soviet archives to scholars has made it possible to write the history of this notorious concentration camp system, documents tell only one side of the story. Gulag Voices now fills in the other half. The backgrounds of the writers reflect the extraordinary diversity of the Gulag itself. Here are the personal stories of such figures as Dmitri Likhachev, a renowned literary scholar; Anatoly Marchenko, the son of illiterate laborers; and Alexander Dolgun, an American citizen. These remembrances-many of them appearing in English for the first time, each chosen for both literary and historical value-collectively spotlight the strange moral universe of the camps, as well as the relationships that prisoners had with one another, with their guards, and with professional criminals who lived beside them. A vital addition to the literature of this era, annotated for a generation that no longer remembers the Soviet Union, Gulag Voices will inform, interest, and inspire, offering a source for reflection on human nature itself.
• Titolo autorizzato: Gulag voices
• ISBN: 1-283-09609-9; 9786613096098; 0-300-16012-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810239603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Annals of Communism.