Research Catalog

Title

Gulag voices : oral histories of Soviet incarceration and exile / Jehanne M. Gheith and Katherine R. Jolluck.

Author

Gheith, Jehanne M.

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

Jolluck, Katherine R.

Description

xii, 256 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Summary

"In this volume, the powerful voices of Gulag survivors will become accessible to English-speaking audiences for the first time through oral histories, rather than written memoirs. It brings together interviews with men and women, members of the working class and intelligentsia, people who live in the major cities and those from the "provinces," and from an array of corrective hard labor camps and prisons across the former Soviet Union. Its aims are threefold: 1) to give a sense of the range of the Gulag experience and its consequences for Russian society; 2) to make the Gulag relevant to English-speaking readers by offering comparisons to historical catastrophes they are likely to know more about, such as the Holocaust; and 3) to discuss issues of oral history and memory in the cultural context of Soviet and post-Soviet society"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Palgrave studies in oral history

Uniform Title

Palgrave studies in oral history.

Subject

• Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitelʹno-trudovykh lagereĭ OGPU > History
• Political prisoners > Soviet Union > Interviews
• Exiles > Soviet Union > Interviews
• Forced labor > Soviet Union > History
• Interviews > Russia (Federation)
• Oral history > Soviet Union
• Oral history > Russia (Federation)
• Memory > Social aspects > History. > Soviet Union
• Memory > Social aspects > Russia (Federation)
• Soviet Union > History > 1925-1953 > Biography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

pt. 1. Forced laborers in the Perm region -- A life in the forest : Sira Stepanovna Balashina -- Soviet but German : Robert Avgustovich Ianke -- Under two dictators : Abliaziz Umerovich Ramazanov -- pt. 2. Exiled and arrested -- A mother in exile : Larisa Mikhailovna Lappo-Danilevskaia -- Surrounded by death : Giuli Fedorovna Tsivirko -- It wasn't life : Nina Ivanovna Rodina -- pt. 3. Children of enemies -- Three death certificates but no grave : Boris Israelovich/Srul'evich Faifman -- Enumerated units : Giuzel Gumerovna Ibragimova -- pt. 4. Children of enemies and then arrested -- From privilege to exile : Valeriia Mikhailovna Gerlin -- Bridging separate worlds : Felix Arkadievich Serebrov -- pt. 5. Documents: Survivor accounts and letters -- I so desired death : Czesława Greczyn -- Fragments : Anna Cieślikowska -- Disgusting and hopeless : Maria Norciszek -- We will surely die : Irena Grześkowiak -- Why did he ruin our happiness? : Franciszka Dul -- Fare thee well : Valentin Tikhonovich Muravskii and Rozalia Iosifovna Muravskaia.

Call Number

JFE 11-786

ISBN

• 9780230610620
• 0230610625

LCCN

2010019155

OCLC

YBP 2010019155

Author

Gheith, Jehanne M.

Title

Gulag voices : oral histories of Soviet incarceration and exile / Jehanne M. Gheith and Katherine R. Jolluck.

Imprint

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Edition

1st ed.

Series

Palgrave studies in oral history

Palgrave studies in oral history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Jolluck, Katherine R.

Research Call Number

JFE 11-786