Research Catalog

Title

Survival as victory : Ukrainian women in the Gulag / Oksana Kis ; translated by Lidia Wolanskyj.

Author

Kisʹ, Oksana, 1970-

Publication

• Cambridge, Massachusetts : Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, 2020.
• ©2020

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Additional Authors

Wolanskyj, Lidia, 1950-

Description

ix, 640 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian women were sentenced to the GULAG in the 1940s and 1950s. Only about half of them survived. In Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag, Oksana Kis has produced the first anthropological study of daily life in the Soviet forced labor camps as experienced by Ukrainian women prisoners. Based on the written memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories of over 150 survivors, this book fills a lacuna in the scholarship regarding Ukrainian experience. It details the women's resistance to the brutality of camp conditions not only through the preservation of customs and traditions from everyday home life, but also through the frequent elision of regional and confessional differences. Following on from the groundbreaking work of Anne Applebaum's Gulag: A History (2003), this book is a must-read for anyone interested in gendered strategies of survival, accommodation, and resistance to the dehumanizing effects of the Gulag"--Provided by publisher

Series Statement

Harvard series in Ukrainian studies ; 79

Uniform Title

• Ukraïnky v Hulahu : vyz͡hyty znachytʹ peremohty. English
• Harvard series in Ukrainian studies ; v. 79.

Alternative Title

Ukraïnky v Hulahu : vyz͡hyty znachytʹ peremohty.

Subject

• GULag NKVD
• 1925-1953
• Women internment camp inmates > Soviet Union
• Women prisoners > Soviet Union
• Prisoners > Soviet Union
• Women, Ukrainian > Soviet Union
• Women internment camp inmates > Ukraine
• Women prisoners > Ukraine
• Prisoners > Ukraine
• Internment camps > Soviet Union
• Prisons > Soviet Union
• Internment camps
• Prisoners
• Prisons
• Women concentration camp inmates
• Women prisoners
• Women, Ukrainian
• Soviet Union > History > 1925-1953
• Soviet Union
• Ukraine

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 593-615) and index.

Language (note)

• English; translated from the Ukrainian.

Contents

The daily life of women in the Gulag in research and personal memoirs -- Living conditions in prisons and camps in the 1940s and 1950s -- National identity and Christian faith during imprisonment -- Creativity and free time -- Humanity and femininity in captivity -- Body, sexuality, and love -- Motherhood behind bars : a cursed blessing.

Call Number

JFE 22-2756

ISBN

• 0674258282
• 9780674258280

LCCN

2020945626

OCLC

1235871122

Author

Kisʹ, Oksana, 1970- author.

Title

Survival as victory : Ukrainian women in the Gulag / Oksana Kis ; translated by Lidia Wolanskyj.

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Harvard series in Ukrainian studies ; 79

Harvard series in Ukrainian studies ; v. 79.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 593-615) and index.

Language

English; translated from the Ukrainian.

Local Note

DIST. BY HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Chronological Term

1925-1953

Added Author

Wolanskyj, Lidia, 1950- translator.

Research Call Number

JFE 22-2756