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Gulag boss : a Soviet memoir
- Title
- Gulag boss : a Soviet memoir / Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky ; translated and edited by Deborah Kaple.
- Author
- Mochulsky, Fyodor Vasilevich, 1919-1999.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Kaple, Deborah A.
- Description
- xxxvii, 229 p. : ill., maps; 22 cm.
- Subjects
- Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitelʹno-trudovykh lagereĭ OGPU History
- Forced labor > Russia (Federation) > Pechora River Region > History > 20th century
- Concentration camps > Russia (Federation) > Pechora River Region > History > 20th century
- Mochulsky, Fyodor Vasilevich, 1919-1999
- Soviet Union > Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del > Officials and employees > Biography
- Pechora River Region (Russia) > History > 20th century
- Political prisoners > Russia (Federation) > Pechora River Region > Social conditions > 20th century
- Political prisoners > Russia (Federation) > Pechora River Region > History > 20th century
- Prisons > Soviet Union > Officials and employees > Biography
- Soviet Union > History > 1925-1953 > Biography
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- pt. 1. Gulag from the outside -- The NKVD : villain or protector? -- First acquaintance with Gulag NKVD : meeting at the Central Committee of the CPSU -- Meeting in the Cadres Department of Gulag NKVD -- Forty-five days to Pechorlag -- pt. 2. Gulag from the inside -- At the Construction Administration -- Unit foreman, first contingent of prisoners : Soviet volunteer ski troops in the Finnish War -- The unit bosses -- A change in leadership at Pechorlag -- Transferred to the 93rd Unit, labor force : hardened criminals -- Attempted prisoner revolt in the 93rd Unit -- Boss and foreman at the 95th Unit, labor force : political prisoners -- Threat of arrest -- The war -- Illness -- Recovery and return to work in the southern part of the camp -- Boss of a militarized section, labor force : captured German prisoners of war -- Boss of a railway division, labor force : professional railwaymen -- The "liberated" secretary of the Communist Youth Organization -- Fascist military landing force -- Deputy boss in the Political Department for Komsomol work at the NKVD's Road Building Camp No. 3 -- pt. 3. Interesting asides -- Some railroad recollections -- Peschanka, a village of dekulakized people on the River Pechora -- The countryside of Komi on the River Usa -- Women at Pechorlag -- A fellow traveler from Abez to Pechora -- pt. 4. Final words -- The end of my story -- The real essence of the Gulag -- Afterword: The nature of memoir -- Appendix 1: Pretexts for arrest under Lenin and Stalin period -- Appendix 2: Article 58 of the RSFSR Criminal Code -- Appendix 3: Glossary.
- Call Number
- JFD 10-4773
- ISBN
- 9780199742660 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0199742669 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010007440
- OCLC
- YBP 2010007440
- Author
- Mochulsky, Fyodor Vasilevich, 1919-1999.
- Title
- Gulag boss : a Soviet memoir / Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky ; translated and edited by Deborah Kaple.
- Imprint
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Kaple, Deborah A.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 10-4773