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O.G.P.U. Prison

Author : Sven Hassel
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 0297864211
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book O.G.P.U. Prison written by Sven Hassel and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russian uses his machine pistol like a scythe. Feldwebel remains standing for a fraction of a second. The rain of bullets pours into him, making him twitch violently. He falls to the floor. The Russian grins. There is no doubt that he is enjoying himself. Sven Hassel and his comrades are ordered to take O.G.P.U. Prison in any way they can, even if it means killing the Russians with their bare hands. Armed with flame-throwers and heavy artillery, the 27th Penal Regiment plan their attack. O.G.P.U. PRISON is one of Sven Hassel's most compulsively readable novels, full of battle scenes, written in the gritty style that Hassel is renowned for.

Prisoner of the OGPU

Author : George Kitchin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book Prisoner of the OGPU written by George Kitchin and published by . This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prisoner of the OGPU, first published in 1935, is a firsthand account of the author's 4 years in the Soviet gulag (1928-32) at the hands of the Soviet secret police (known as the OGPU at the time, later renamed the NKVD, MGB, and KGB). At the time of his arrest, George Kitchin, a Finnish citizen, was working in Russia as a representative for an American firm. He was charged with violating an obscure regulation, held in prison, and then sent to a labor camp located in northern Russia where he describes the brutalities he endured and witnessed. The book also offers excellent insights into the running of the camps as Kitchin was able to work in the camp's administration offices (in addition to sometimes being sent to work on the timber-cutting and road-building labor crews). The OGPU was one of several in a succession of state security agencies created by the Soviets. the first group was the Cheka, created by Vladimir Lenin on December 20, 1917. The main task of the Cheka was to combat counter-revolutionary activity, which included arresting, torturing, and executing thousands. Soldiers belonging to the Cheka were tasked with: policing labor camps, running the Gulag system, subjecting political opponents to arrests, detention, torture and execution, and subduing rebellions or riots by the workers or peasants. The Cheka was followed by the GPU, the State Political Directorate, in 1922. The GPU was renamed again in 1923 to the OGPU, the United State Political Administration.

OGPU, the Russian Secret Terror

Author : Grigoriĭ Sergeevich Agabekov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book OGPU, the Russian Secret Terror written by Grigoriĭ Sergeevich Agabekov and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Origins Of The Gulag

Author : Michael Jakobson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081316138X
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Origins Of The Gulag written by Michael Jakobson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vast network of prison camps was an essential part of the Stalinist system. Conditions in the camps were brutal, life expectancy short. At their peak, they housed millions, and hardly an individual in the Soviet Union remained untouched by their tentacles. Michael Jakobson's is the first study to examine the most crucial period in the history of the camps: from the October Revolution of 1917, when the tsarist prison system was destroyed to October 1934, when all places of confinement were consolidated under one agency—the infamous GULAG. The prison camps served the Soviet government in many ways: to isolate opponents and frighten the population into submission, to increase labor productivity through the arrest of "inefficient" workers, and to provide labor for factories, mines, lumbering, and construction projects. Jakobson focuses on the structure and interrelations of prison agencies, the Bolshevik views of crime and punishment and inmate reeducation, and prison self-sufficiency. He also describes how political conditions and competition among prison agencies contributed to an unprecedented expansion of the system. Finally, he disputes the official claim of 1931 that the system was profitable—a claim long accepted by former inmates and Western researchers and used to explain the proliferation of the camps and their population. Did Marxism or the Bolshevik Revolution or Leninism inexorably lead to the GULAG system? Were its origins truly evil or merely banal? Jakobson's important book probes the official record to cast new light on a system that for a time supported but ultimately helped destroy the now fallen Soviet colossus.

Exiled to Palestine

Author : Ziva Galili
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135296170
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Exiled to Palestine written by Ziva Galili and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the unknown story of how Zionists imprisoned by Soviet authorities were allowed to choose sentences of permanent departure to Palestine, where they helped build Jewish society, the backbone of left-wing parties, and the powerful trade union movement. These leading authors bring to light undiscovered documents from archives opened after the collapse of the Soviet Union and go on to revise fundamental assumptions about these events. They examine the means by which internal power struggles and personal interventions in the uppermost echelons of the Soviet leadership allowed the Zionists to disseminate their message and recruit thousands of members before the massive arrests of the mid-1920s; demonstrate the extent to which personal contacts between Zionists and those who aided them, Soviet leaders and members of the security services, were vital to initiating and sustaining the practice of substitution; and using a broad array of British and Zionist documents, they reveal the crucial role of Anglo-Zionist co-operation in facilitating the immigration of Zionist convicts. This book will of great interest to all students and scholars of Jewish and Israeli, Russian and Soviet and European and British history.

Letters from Russian Prisons

Author : International Committee for Political Prisoners
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Letters from Russian Prisons written by International Committee for Political Prisoners and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Methods of the OGPU

Author : Vladimir Khristianovich Brunovskiĭ
Publisher : London (England) : Harper & Brothers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Methods of the OGPU by : Vladimir Khristianovich Brunovskiĭ

Download or read book The Methods of the OGPU written by Vladimir Khristianovich Brunovskiĭ and published by London (England) : Harper & Brothers. This book was released on 1931 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Soviet Secret Police

Author : Simon Wolin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040005314
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Secret Police written by Simon Wolin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-12 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soviet Secret Police (1957) depicts the main aspects of the development, structure and functions of the secret police of the Soviet Union. Much of the information contained within comes from the personal testimony of Soviet citizens who had experienced various activities of the secret police, and forms a full and objective study of the secret police and its role in the Soviet system.

Gulag

Author : Anne Applebaum
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307426122
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Gulag written by Anne Applebaum and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • This magisterial and acclaimed history offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost. “A tragic testimony to how evil ideologically inspired dictatorships can be.” –The New York Times The Gulag—a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners—was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. Applebaum intimately re-creates what life was like in the camps and links them to the larger history of the Soviet Union. Immediately recognized as a landmark and long-overdue work of scholarship, Gulag is an essential book for anyone who wishes to understand the history of the twentieth century.

Letters from Russian Prisons

Author : Committee For Political Prisoners
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781258197575
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Book Synopsis Letters from Russian Prisons by : Committee For Political Prisoners

Download or read book Letters from Russian Prisons written by Committee For Political Prisoners and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consisting Of Reprints Of Documents By Political Prisoners In Soviet Prisons, Prison Camps And Exile, And Reprints Of Affidavits Concerning Political Persecution In Soviet Russia, Official Statements By Soviet Authorities, Excerpts From Soviet Laws Pertaining To Civil Liberties, And Other Documents. Introductory Letters Include Those By: Einstein, Emma Goldman, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertrand Russell, Harold Laski, Karl Capek, Maeterlinck, H. G. Wells, Rebecca West, Others.

The Gates of Hell

Author : Matthew Heise
Publisher : Lexham Press
ISBN 13 : 168359598X
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book The Gates of Hell written by Matthew Heise and published by Lexham Press. This book was released on 2022-05-11 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gates of hell shall not prevail. Decimated by war, revolution, and famine, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Russia was in critical condition in 1921. In The Gates of Hell, Matthew Heise recounts the bravery and suffering of German--Russian Lutherans during the period between the two great world wars. These stories tell of ordinary Christians who remained faithful to death in the face of state persecution. Christians in Russia had dark days characterized by defeat, but God preserved his church. Against all human odds, the church would outlast the man--made sandcastles of communist utopianism. The Gates of Hell is a wonderful testimony to the enduring power of God's word, Christ's church, and the Spirit's faithfulness.

Revolutionary Law and Order

Author : Peter H. Juviler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743236351
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Law and Order written by Peter H. Juviler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-01-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the Soviet Union’s response to crimes with the use of enforced security, Peter Juviler provides insight on trends in criminal actions and common legal responses to them in Soviet Russia. Revolutionary Law and Order looks at how policy has been made by the Soviet Union, as well as the social and political changes that came to Russia and the successes and failures that came with the Soviet’s efforts to eliminate crime. Through Peter Juviler’s evaluation of Russia’s quest for law and order in the sense of security against crimes, readers will find numerous examples of the effective enforcement from the tsarist reforms to elaborate efforts of preventing and fighting cybercrimes.

The Gulag Doctors

Author : Dan Healey
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300277377
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Gulag Doctors written by Dan Healey and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering history of medical care in Stalin’s Gulag—showing how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling conditions A byword for injustice, suffering, and mass mortality, the Gulag exploited prisoners, compelling them to work harder for better rations in shocking conditions. From 1930 to 1953, eighteen million people passed through this penal-industrial empire. Many inmates, not reaching their quotas, succumbed to exhaustion, emaciation, and illness. It seems paradoxical that any medical care was available in the camps. But it was in fact ubiquitous. By 1939 the Gulag Sanitary Department employed 10,000 doctors, nurses and paramedics—about 40 percent of whom were prisoners. Dan Healey explores the lives of the medical staff who treated inmates in the Gulag. Doctors and nurses faced extremes of repression, supply shortages, and isolation. Yet they still created hospitals, re-fed prisoners, treated diseases, and “saved” a proportion of their patients. They taught apprentices and conducted research too. This groundbreaking account offers an unprecedented view of Stalin’s forced-labour camps as experienced by its medical staff.

The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 14, Autobiography: “I Wonder As I Wander.” Edited with an Introduction by Joseph McLaren

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Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 082627224X
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 14, Autobiography: “I Wonder As I Wander.” Edited with an Introduction by Joseph McLaren written by and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

I Wonder as I Wander

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466894881
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book I Wonder as I Wander written by Langston Hughes and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s. His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia, Japan, Spain (during its Civil War), through dictatorships, wars, revolutions. He meets and brings to life the famous and the humble, from Arthur Koestler to Emma, the Black Mammy of Moscow. It is the continuously amusing, wise revelation of an American writer journeying around the often strange and always exciting world he loves.

The Sven Hassel Collection

Author : Sven Hassel
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1780226209
Total Pages : 4750 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book The Sven Hassel Collection written by Sven Hassel and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 4750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the fight for survival against the ferocious Red Army and the icy, shell-ravaged wastes of the vicious Russian winter, to the bloodiest battles on the Eastern Front, Sven Hassel's gripping novels are based on his own experiences in the German army. Convicted of deserting the German army, Sven Hassel was sent to a punishment regiment on the Russian Front. He and his comrades were regarded as little more than dispensable killing-machines, cannon fodder for Hitler's war. His unflinching narrative takes us to the most extreme outposts of war, where soldiers face an inferno of blood and butchery. THE SVEN HASSEL COLLECTION includes all 14 books in Sven Hassel's series and exclusive extra material.

Wrecking Activities at Power Stations in the Soviet Union

Author : Various authors
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000882063
Total Pages : 987 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Wrecking Activities at Power Stations in the Soviet Union written by Various authors and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 987 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wrecking Activities at Power Stations in the Soviet Union (1933) is a valuable historical document that presents a verbatim report of the trials of various Soviet and British engineers and workers accused of acts of sabotage against the Soviet energy infrastructure. It is a rare insight into the day to day lives of such workers, and the workings of Soviet bureaucracy.