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My father's letters : correspondence from the Soviet Gulag

Title
My father's letters : correspondence from the Soviet Gulag / the 'Memorial' International Historical, Educational, Human Rights and Charitable Society ; edited by Alena Kozlova, Nikolai Mikhailov, Irina Ostrovskaya and Svetlana Fadeeva ; foreword by Irina Scherbakova ; afterword by Ludmila Ulitskaya ; translated from the Russian by Georgia Thomson.
Publication
  • London : Granta, 2021.
  • ©2021

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Additional Authors
  • Kozlova, Alena
  • Mikhaĭlov, Nikolaĭ
  • Ostrovskai︠a︡, Irina
  • Fadeeva, Svetlana
  • Scherbakova, Irina
  • Ulit︠s︡kai︠a︡, Li︠u︡dmila
  • Thomson, Georgia
  • Pravozashchitnyĭ t︠s︡entr "Memorial" (Moscow, Russia)
Description
xxi, 280 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 25 cm
Summary
"Between the 1930s and 1950s, millions of people were sent to the Gulag in the Soviet Union. My Father's Letters tells the stories of 16 men - mostly members of the intelligentsia, and loyal Soviet subjects - who were imprisoned in the Gulag camps, through the letters they sent back to their wives and children. Here are letters illustrated by fathers keen to educate their children in science and natural history; the tragic missives of a former military man convinced that the terrible mistake of his arrest will be rectified; the 'letter' stitched on a bedsheet with a fishbone and smuggled out of a maximum security camp. My Father's Letters is an immediate source of life in prison during Stalin's Great Terror. Almost none of the men writing these letters survived"--Publisher's description.
Subject
  • Political prisoners > Soviet Union > Correspondence
  • Internment camp inmates > Soviet Union > Correspondence
  • Fathers > Soviet Union > Correspondence
  • Prisons > Soviet Union
  • Internment camps > Soviet Union
  • Concentration camp inmates
  • Concentration camps
  • Fathers
  • Political prisoners
  • Prisons
  • Soviet Union
Genre/Form
Personal correspondence.
Note
  • Translated from the Russian.
Contents
Mikhail Stroikov -- Alexei Vangenheim -- Mikhail Bodrov -- Yevgeny Yablokov -- Victor Lunyov -- Mikhail Lebedev -- Ivan Sukhanov -- Boris Shustov -- Gavriil Gordon -- Vladimir Levitsky -- Friedrich Krause -- Samuil Tieits -- Armin Stromberg -- Nikolai Lyubchenko -- Anatoly Kozlovsky -- Victor Mamaladze.
Call Number
JFE 21-7835
ISBN
  • 9781783785285
  • 1783785284
LCCN
2020416670
OCLC
1233316509
Title
My father's letters : correspondence from the Soviet Gulag / the 'Memorial' International Historical, Educational, Human Rights and Charitable Society ; edited by Alena Kozlova, Nikolai Mikhailov, Irina Ostrovskaya and Svetlana Fadeeva ; foreword by Irina Scherbakova ; afterword by Ludmila Ulitskaya ; translated from the Russian by Georgia Thomson.
Publisher
London : Granta, 2021.
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Added Author
Kozlova, Alena, editor.
Mikhaĭlov, Nikolaĭ, editor.
Ostrovskai︠a︡, Irina, editor.
Fadeeva, Svetlana, editor.
Scherbakova, Irina, writer of foreword.
Ulit︠s︡kai︠a︡, Li︠u︡dmila, writer of afterword.
Thomson, Georgia, translator.
Pravozashchitnyĭ t︠s︡entr "Memorial" (Moscow, Russia)
Research Call Number
JFE 21-7835
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