Gulag Voices Oral Histories of Soviet Incarceration and Exile

by Gheith, Jehanne M; Jolluck, Katherine R.

• ISBN13: 9780230610637
• ISBN10: 0230610633
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The powerful voices of Gulag survivors become accessible to English-speaking audiences for the first time through oral histories, including interviews with the working class and intelligentsia across the former Soviet Union, including those from corrective hard labor camps and prisons.

Author Biography

Jehanne M Gheith is an Associate Professor in the Slavic and Eurasian Studies Department at Duke University.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
List of Maps and Illustrations	p. xiii
Note on Transliteration	p. xv
Maps	p. xvi
Introduction	p. 1
Forced Laborers in the Perm Region
A Life in the Forest	p. 17
Soviet but German	p. 29
Under Two Dictators	p. 47
Exiled and Arrested
A Mother in Exile	p. 69
Surrounded by Death	p. 87
It Wasn't Life	p. 99
Children of Enemies
Three Death Certificates but No Grave	p. 117
Enumerated Units	p. 133
Children of Enemies and Then Arrested
From Privilege to Exile	p. 151
Bridging Separate Worlds	p. 169
Documents: Survivor Accounts and Letters
I So Desired Death	p. 193
Fragments	p. 201
Disgusting and Hopeless	p. 207
We Will Surely Die	p. 211
Why Did He Ruin Our Happiness?	p. 215
Fare Thee Well	p. 219
Notes	p. 223
Glossary	p. 241
Measurement Conversions	p. 245
Note on Contributors	p. 247
Index	p. 249
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