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Book Synopsis Alexander Dolgun's Story by : Alexander Dolgun
Download or read book Alexander Dolgun's Story written by Alexander Dolgun and published by Library Development Commission. This book was released on 1975 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Dolgun compelled himself to reconstruct his long ordeal at the hands of the Soviet Secret Police. As a 22 year old young American, son of one of the American engineers who took jobs in Russia during the depression, He was stopped by Secret Police, and became prisoner of the MGB for 18 months of hell.
Download or read book Gulag Voices written by Anne Applebaum and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-11 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the writings of a diverse group of people who survived imprisonment in the Gulag, recounting their experiences and relationships, and offering insight into the psychological aspects of life in the camps.
Book Synopsis Return from the Archipelago by : Leona Toker
Download or read book Return from the Archipelago written by Leona Toker and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive historical survey and critical analysis of the vast body of narrative literature about the Soviet gulag. Leona Toker organizes and characterizes both fictional narratives and survivors' memoirs as she explores the changing hallmarks of the genre from the 1920s through the Gorbachev era. Toker reflects on the writings and testimonies that shed light on the veiled aspects of totalitarianism, dehumanization, and atrocity. Identifying key themes that recur in the narratives -- arrest, the stages of trial, imprisonment, labor camps, exile, escapes, special punishment, the role of chance, and deprivation -- Toker discusses the historical, political, and social contexts of these accounts and the ethical and aesthetic imperative they fulfill. Her readings provide extraordinary insight into prisoners' experiences of the Soviet penal system. Special attention is devoted to the writings of Varlam Shalamov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, but many works that are not well known in the West, especially those by women, are addressed. Consideration is also given to events that recently brought many memoirs to light years after they were written.
Download or read book Far Tortuga written by Peter Matthiessen and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1988-01-12 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adventure story and a deeply considered meditation upon the sea itself. "Beautiful and original...a resonant and symbolical story of nine doomed men who dream of an earthly paradise as the world winds down around them." —Newsweek
Download or read book The English Prisoner written by Tig Hague and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 2003 young Englishman Tig Hague was on a routine business trip to Moscow when he was arrested at the airport. Within hours he was accused of a major crime. Next, he was tried and transported hundreds of miles to the remote, forsaken wastes of Mordovia.And prison camp Zone 22. Sentenced to spend the next four years there, every day was a struggle against disease, freezing temperatures, malnutrition, the unpredictable, sometimes terrifying behaviour of the camp guards and his fellow prisoners.But, most of all, it was a fight to ensure his own psychological survival. Only the thought of his girlfriend Lucy, fighting Russia's corrupt and labyrinthine legal system, kept Tig sane - and gave him a reason to see each day to its end. The English Prisoner is an extraordinary story of endurance, as one man - plucked from his normal, everyday life - is forced to reach deep inside himself to survive life in one of the bleakest outposts in the world: Russia's vast and unforgiving 'forgotten zone'.
Book Synopsis Alexander Dolgun's Story. An American in the Gulag. With P. Watson by : Alexander Dolgun
Download or read book Alexander Dolgun's Story. An American in the Gulag. With P. Watson written by Alexander Dolgun and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fulcrum written by Alexander Zuyev and published by Grand Central Pub. This book was released on 1993-11-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soviet pilot recounts his audacious defection in a hijacked MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter jet and reveals the secrets behind the 1983 shooting of Korean Airlines flight 007, Soviet military espionage, American POWs in the Soviet Union, and other issues. Reprint.
Book Synopsis Alexander Dolgun's Story by : Alexander Dolgun
Download or read book Alexander Dolgun's Story written by Alexander Dolgun and published by Library Development Commission. This book was released on 1975 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Dolgun compelled himself to reconstruct his long ordeal at the hands of the Soviet Secret Police. As a 22 year old young American, son of one of the American engineers who took jobs in Russia during the depression, He was stopped by Secret Police, and became prisoner of the MGB for 18 months of hell.
Book Synopsis A Boy in the Gulag by : Jerzy Kmiecik
Download or read book A Boy in the Gulag written by Jerzy Kmiecik and published by Quartet Books (UK). This book was released on 1983 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zone 22 written by Tig Hague and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Tig hague kissed goodbye to his girlfriend Lucy, he was already thinking of his return. The couple were going house-hunting, looking for their first home together. Tig was only going to be away for a few days on a routine business trip - the annual highlight of an otherwise unglamourous job working on the Russian desk of a London bank. But just hours later something went wrong at Moscow airport. Very wrong. Misunderstanding a request from customs for a backhander to speed his progress into the country, Tig was pulled to one side to have his bag searched. A deliberate inconvenience, he thought. But Tig's world was about to implode with dizzying, terrifying speed. A tiny lump of hashish, nothing more than detritus from a recent stag weekend, was discovered in the pocket of an old pair of jeans. Too small to warrant anything more than a slapped wrist back home, he hadn't even known it was there. Tig was in Moscow's notorious Piet Central jail by nightfall - and that was just a stepping stone on his way to prison camp Zone 22 in the bleak, remote wastes of Mordovia. He wouldn't be returning home for years. Zone 22is the shocking story of a young Englishman's struggle to survive the brutal, corrupt, almost medieval conditions of a prison camp in Putin's Russia - a gripping contemporary story in the tradition of Papillionand Midnight Express.
Book Synopsis The Gulag Study by : Michael E. Allen
Download or read book The Gulag Study written by Michael E. Allen and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Without Vodka by : Aleksander Topolski
Download or read book Without Vodka written by Aleksander Topolski and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can't figure it out." Ultimately Topolski escapes into Iran to join the Polish 2nd Corps which is being formed there to fight the Germans . . . but that's another story.
Book Synopsis Labor Camp Socialism: The Gulag in the Soviet Totalitarian System by : Galina Mikhailovna Ivanova
Download or read book Labor Camp Socialism: The Gulag in the Soviet Totalitarian System written by Galina Mikhailovna Ivanova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first historical survey of the Gulag based on newly accessible archival sources as well as memoirs and other studies published since the beginning of glasnost. Over the course of several decades, the Soviet labor camp system drew into its orbit tens of millions of people -- political prisoners and their families, common criminals, prisoners of war, internal exiles, local officials, and prison camp personnel. This study sheds new light on the operation of the camp system, both internally and as an integral part of a totalitarian regime that "institutionalized violence as a universal means of attaining its goals". In Galina Ivanova's unflinching account -- all the more powerful for its austerity -- the Gulag is the ultimate manifestation of a more pervasive and lasting distortion of the values of legality, labor, and life that burdens Russia to the present day.
Book Synopsis The Perversion Of Knowledge by : Dr. Vadim J. Birstein
Download or read book The Perversion Of Knowledge written by Dr. Vadim J. Birstein and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-09-09 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Soviet years, Russian science was touted as one of the greatest successes of the regime. Russian science was considered to be equal, if not superior, to that of the wealthy western nations. The Perversion of Knowledge, a history of Soviet science that focuses on its control by the KGB and the Communist Party, reveals the dark side of this glittering achievement. Based on the author's firsthand experience as a Soviet scientist, and drawing on extensive Russian language sources not easily available to the Western reader, the book includes shocking new information on biomedical experimentation on humans as well as an examination of the pernicious effects of Trofim Lysenko's pseudo-biology. Also included are many poignant case histories of those who collaborated and those who managed to resist, focusing on the moral choices and consequences. The text is accompanied by the author's own translations of key archival materials, making this work an essential resource for all those with a serious interest in Russian history.
Book Synopsis Alexander Dolgun's Story by : Alexander Dolgun
Download or read book Alexander Dolgun's Story written by Alexander Dolgun and published by [London] : Fontana/Collins. This book was released on 1976 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Alexander Dolgun's Story by : Alexander Dolgun
Download or read book Alexander Dolgun's Story written by Alexander Dolgun and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ottomans, Turks and the Balkans by : Ebru Boyar
Download or read book Ottomans, Turks and the Balkans written by Ebru Boyar and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2007-06-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The loss of the Balkans was not merely a physical but also a psychological disaster for the Ottoman Empire. This work charts the creation of the modern Turkish self-perception during the transition period from the late Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic.
