- 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
- Palgrave studies in oral history
Palgrave studies in oral history.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Gheith, Jehanne M.
- Published
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
- Locale
- Soviet Union
Russia (Federation)
- Edition
- First edition
- 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.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Jolluck, Katherine R.
- Notes
-
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
