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Author : Dr. Zoltan Toth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Prisoner of the Soviet Union written by Dr. Zoltan Toth and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael E. Allen
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428980024
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)
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:
Author : Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780374534684
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (346 download)
Download or read book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the centenary of the Russian Revolution, a new edition of the Russian Nobel Prize-winning author's most accessible novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is an undisputed classic of contemporary literature. First published (in censored form) in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, it is the story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov as he struggles to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. On every page of this graphic depiction of Ivan Denisovich's struggles, the pain of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's own decade-long experience in the gulag is apparent—which makes its ultimate tribute to one man's will to triumph over relentless dehumanization all the more moving. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced-work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary works to have emerged from the Soviet Union. The first of Solzhenitsyn's novels to be published, it forced both the Soviet Union and the West to confront the Soviet's human rights record, and the novel was specifically mentioned in the presentation speech when Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. Above all, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich establishes Solzhenitsyn's stature as "a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy" (Harrison Salisbury, The New York Times). This unexpurgated, widely acclaimed translation by H. T. Willetts is the only translation authorized by Solzhenitsyn himself.
Author : Elinor Lipper
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786257203
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)
Download or read book Eleven Years In Soviet Prison Camps written by Elinor Lipper and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shocking and absorbing account of life in the hell of the Soviet Gulag system is told in all his horrific details here by Elinor Lipper. “IN THIS BOOK I have described my personal experiences only to the extent that they were the characteristic experiences of a prisoner in the Soviet Union. For my concern is not primarily with the foreigners in Soviet camps; it is rather with the fate of all the peoples who have been subjugated by the Soviet regime, who were born in a Soviet Republic and cannot escape from it. The events I describe are the daily experiences of thousands or people in the Soviet Union. They are the findings of an involuntary expedition into an unknown land: the land of Soviet prisoners, of the guiltless damned. From that region I have brought back with me the silence of the Siberian graveyards, the deathly silence of those who have frozen, starved, or been beaten to death. This book is an attempt to make that silence speak.”-from the Author’s Preface.
Author : Adelbert Holl
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473856124
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book After Stalingrad written by Adelbert Holl and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This WWII memoir of a Nazi infantryman captured at Stalingrad offers a rare firsthand account of life inside Soviet POW camps. The Battle of Stalingrad has been studied and recalled in exhaustive detail ever since the Red Army trapped the German 6th Army in the ruined city in 1942. But most of these accounts finish at the end of the battle, with columns of tens of thousands of German soldiers disappearing into Soviet captivity. Their fate is rarely described. But in After Stalingrad, German infantryman Adelbert Holl vividly recounts his seven-year ordeal as a prisoner in the Soviet camps. As Holl moves from camp to camp across the Soviet Union, he provides an unsparing view of the prison system and its population of ex-soldiers. The Soviets treated German prisoners as slave laborers, working them exhaustively, in often appalling conditions. He describes the daily life in the camps: the crowding, the dirt, the cold, the ever-present threat of disease, the forced marches, and the indifference or outright cruelty of the guards.
Author : Maria Teresa Giusti
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633863562
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)
Download or read book Stalin's Italian Prisoners of War written by Maria Teresa Giusti and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconstructs the fate of Italian prisoners of war captured by the Red Army between August 1941 and the winter of 1942-43. On 230.000 Italians left on the Eastern front almost 100.000 did not come back home. Testimonies and memoirs from surviving veterans complement the author's intensive work in Russian and Italian archives. The study examines Italian war crimes against the Soviet civilian population and describes the particularly grim fate of the thousands of Italian military internees who after the 8 September 1943 Armistice had been sent to Germany and were subsequently captured by the Soviet army to be deported to the USSR. The book presents everyday life and death in the Soviet prisoner camps and explains the particularly high mortality among Italian prisoners. Giusti explores how well the system of prisoner labor, personally supervised by Stalin, was planned, starting in 1943. A special focus of the study is antifascist propaganda among prisoners and the infiltration of the Soviet security agencies in the camps. Stalin was keen to create a new cohort of supporters through the mass political reeducation of war prisoners, especially middle-class intellectuals and military élite. The book ends with the laborious diplomatic talks in 1946 and 1947 between USSR, Italy, and the Holy See for the repatriation of the surviving prisoners.
Author : Menachem Begin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book White Nights written by Menachem Begin and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven A. Barnes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400838614
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Death and Redemption written by Steven A. Barnes and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death and Redemption offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag--the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons--in Soviet society. Soviet authorities undoubtedly had the means to exterminate all the prisoners who passed through the Gulag, but unlike the Nazis they did not conceive of their concentration camps as instruments of genocide. In this provocative book, Steven Barnes argues that the Gulag must be understood primarily as a penal institution where prisoners were given one final chance to reintegrate into Soviet society. Millions whom authorities deemed "reeducated" through brutal forced labor were allowed to leave. Millions more who "failed" never got out alive. Drawing on newly opened archives in Russia and Kazakhstan as well as memoirs by actual prisoners, Barnes shows how the Gulag was integral to the Soviet goal of building a utopian socialist society. He takes readers into the Gulag itself, focusing on one outpost of the Gulag system in the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan, a location that featured the full panoply of Soviet detention institutions. Barnes traces the Gulag experience from its beginnings after the 1917 Russian Revolution to its decline following the 1953 death of Stalin. Death and Redemption reveals how the Gulag defined the border between those who would reenter Soviet society and those who would be excluded through death.
Author : Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Publisher : Harper Perennial Modern Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780060007768
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 written by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn and published by Harper Perennial Modern Classics. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners and Soviet archives, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn reveals the entire apparatus of Soviet repression -- the state within the state that ruled all-powerfully. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims -- men, women, and children -- we encounter secret police operations, labor camps and prisons; the uprooting or extermination of whole populations, the "welcome" that awaited Russian soldiers who had been German prisoners of war. Yet we also witness the astounding moral courage of the incorruptible, who, defenseless, endured great brutality and degradation. The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 -- a grisly indictment of a regime, fashioned here into a veritable literary miracle -- has now been updated with a new introduction that includes the fall of the Soviet Union and Solzhenitsyn's move back to Russia.
Author : Julie S. Draskoczy
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
ISBN 13 : 1618119346
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (181 download)
Download or read book Belomor written by Julie S. Draskoczy and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing analyses of everything from prisoner poetry to album covers, Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin’s Gulag moves beyond the simplistic good/evil paradigm that often accompanies Gulag scholarship. While acknowledging the normative power of Stalinism—an ethos so hegemonic it wanted to harness the very mechanisms of inspiration—the volume also recognizes the various loopholes offered by artistic expression. Perhaps the most infamous project of Stalin’s first Five-Year Plan, the Belomor construction was riddled by paradox, above all the fact that it created a major waterway that was too shallow for large crafts. Even more significant, and sinister, is that the project won the backing of famous creative luminaries who enthusiastically professed the doctrine of self-fashioning. Belomor complicates our understanding of the Gulag by looking at both prisoner motivation and official response from multiple angles, thereby offering a more expansive vision of the labor camp and its connection to Stalinism.
Author : Leonid Petrovich Bolotov
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476682216
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Twenty Years in a Siberian Gulag written by Leonid Petrovich Bolotov and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caught up in one of the many purges that swept the Soviet Union during the Great Terror, Leonid Petrovich Bolotov (1906-1987) was one of 86 engineers arrested at Leningrad's Red Triangle Rubber Factory and sent to the Gulag as "enemies of the people." He would be the only one to survive and return to his family after enduring two decades in the infamous Kolyma labor camps. Translated into English and published here for the first time, Bolotov's memoir narrates with growing intensity his arrest, imprisonment and interrogation, his "confession" and trial, his exile to hard labor in Arctic Siberia, and his rehabilitation in 1956 following the official end of Stalin's personality cult.
Author : Alexander Dolgun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780394494975
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (949 download)
Download or read book Alexander Dolgun's Story written by Alexander Dolgun and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helsinki Watch (Organization : U.S.)
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
ISBN 13 : 9781564320490
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Prison Conditions in the Soviet Union written by Helsinki Watch (Organization : U.S.) and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1991 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vladimir Vi︠a︡cheslavovich Chernavin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781548549916
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (499 download)
Download or read book I Speak for the Silent Prisoners of the Soviets written by Vladimir Vi︠a︡cheslavovich Chernavin and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I tell my own story because I believe that only in this way can I discharge the moral obligation which a kindly Fate imposed upon me in helping me to escape from the Soviet Terror the duty to speak for those whose voices cannot be heard.In silence they are sent away as convicts to the concentration camps; in silence they suffer torture and go to meet their death from Soviet bullets.Nothing is invented in this book and I stand back of every statement I have made. In a few instances to protect others I have been compelled to conceal the identity of certain people, but I have indicated that fact in each specific case. All those whom I describe are real persons and everything is true to the minutest detail.This is a narrative of what befell a Russian scientist under the Soviet regime. More than that, it is the story of many, if not most, people of education in the U.S.S.R. today.As you read, please remember that I speak of myself only because it enables me to tell the story of others. Remember, also, that, in the Soviet Union, innocent people are still being tried for "wrecking" and that intelligent men are still being forced by torture to "confess" to crimes which they never committed.Remember, too, that thousands of Russian men and women of education are still languishing in the filthy cells of the GPU prisons and in the cold barracks of the concentration camps, poorly clad and starving, breaking with exhaustion under the hardships of inhuman slavery."Vladimir V. TchernavinVladimir Vyacheslavovich Tchernavin (alternative transliteration: Chernavin) (1887-1949) was a Russian-born ichthyologist who became famous as one of the first and few prisoners of the Soviet Gulag system who managed to escape abroad.
Author : David J. Dallin
Publisher : Octagon Press, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Forced Labor in Soviet Russia written by David J. Dallin and published by Octagon Press, Limited. This book was released on 1974 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Jakobson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081316138X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
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 192 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.
Author : A. D. Hans Schuetz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Davai, Davai! written by A. D. Hans Schuetz and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1945, Corporal Hans Schuetz was an instructor in the Nazi army, training the last German recruits--men in their 40s and 50s who had previously worked in war production, but who had been called into service now to protect the Fatherland however they could. Soon Russian tanks advanced on their position, and Schuetz was captured by Soviet soldiers and shipped to Russia. Along the way, he was nearly executed for carving a hole in the railroad car to allow the men to see out. For the next three years, he lived in Russian camps, working in the camp hospital and in a freight wagon factory. Working alongside Russians the author gained a deep compassion for the people and love for their homeland even under the arduous conditions he faced.
