- 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.
- Uniform Title
- Ukraïnky v Hulahu : vyz︠h︡yty znachytʹ peremohty. English
Українки в Гулагу : вижити значить перемогти. English
- Variant Title
- Ukrainian women in the Gulag
- Series
- Harvard series in Ukrainian studies ; 79
Harvard series in Ukrainian studies ; v. 79.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Kisʹ, Oksana, 1970- author.
Кісь, Оксана, 1970- author..
- Published
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, [2020]
[Cambridge, Massachusetts] : Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
©2020
- Locale
- Soviet Union
Ukraine
URSS
- Contents
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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.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Wolanskyj, Lidia, translator.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 593-615) and index.
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.
English; translated from the Ukrainian.
