Research Catalog

Title

Women of the Gulag : portraits of five remarkable lives / Paul R. Gregory.

Author

Gregory, Paul R.

Publication

Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, 2013.

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Description

xiii, 246 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"During the course of three decades, Joseph Stalin's Gulag, a vast network of forced labor camps and settlements, held many millions of prisoners. People in every corner of the Soviet Union lived in daily terror of imprisonment and execution. In researching the surviving threads of memoirs and oral reminiscences of five women victimized by the Gulag, Paul Gregory has stitched together a collection of stories from the female perspective, a view in short supply in the literature. Capturing the fear, paranoia, and unbearable hardship that were hallmarks of Stalin's Great Terror, Gregory relates the stores of these five women--from different social strata and regions--in vivid prose, from their pre-Gulag lives, through their struggles to survive in the repressive atmosphere of the late 1930s and early 1940s, to the difficulties facing the four who survived as the adjusted to life after the Gulag. These firsthand accounts illustrate how even the wrong word could become a crime against the state. Gregory begins with a synopsis of Stalin's rise to power, the roots of the Gulag, and the scheming and plotting that led to and persisted in one of the bloodiest, most egregious dictatorships of the twentieth century." -- Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Hoover Institution Press Publication ; no. 631

Uniform Title

Hoover Institution Press publication ; 631.

Subject

• GULag NKVD
• Women political prisoners > Soviet Union > Biography
• Political persecution > Soviet Union
• Internment camps > Soviet Union
• Prisons > Soviet Union
• Forced labor > Soviet Union
• Straflager
• Weibliche politische Gefangene
• Stalinismus
• Soviet Union > History > 1925-1953
• Sowjetunion

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Note

• Map on end papers.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Terror's human face -- Stalin : struggles and successes -- Agnessa : elite NKVD wife -- Maria : portrait of the new Soviet family -- Evgenia : luxury with a beast -- Adile : princess bride of Abkhazia -- Fekla : child of the kulaks -- Stalin : the storm descends -- Agnessa : crashing a funeral -- Stalin : launching the great terror -- Agnessa : the purge spreads far and wide -- Maria : a narrow escape -- Evgenia : socialist realist -- Adile : the master will not abandon us -- Fekla : becoming a Bolshevik -- Stalin : the master needs a scapegoat -- Agnessa : new year's eve with the Master -- Maria : wife of a traitor to the motherland -- Evgenia : losing everything -- Adile : return and arrest -- Fekla : face of the future -- Aftermath.

ISBN

• 9780817915742 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0817915745 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780817915766 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2012045817

OCLC

• 818985575
• SCSB-13212923

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library