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Gulag Boss
Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky
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Description for Gulag Boss
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 17 halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; JKVP; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 306.
The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world's eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag. But not until now has there been a memoir of life inside the camps written from the perspective of an actual employee of the Secret police. In this riveting memoir, superbly translated by Deborah Kaple, Fyodor Mochulsky describes being sent to work as a boss at the forced labor camp of Pechorlag in the frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle. Only twenty-two years old, he had but a vague idea of the true nature of ... Read more
The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world's eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag. But not until now has there been a memoir of life inside the camps written from the perspective of an actual employee of the Secret police. In this riveting memoir, superbly translated by Deborah Kaple, Fyodor Mochulsky describes being sent to work as a boss at the forced labor camp of Pechorlag in the frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle. Only twenty-two years old, he had but a vague idea of the true nature of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199934867
SKU
V9780199934867
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About Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky
Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky (1918-1999) was a foreman and boss at Pechorlag GULAG NKVD from 1940-1946. Deborah Kaple is Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University. She is the author of Dream of a Red Factory: The Legacy of High Stalinism in China (OUP, 1994).
Reviews for Gulag Boss
Gives us a fascinating insight into the mind of a once-loyal Stalinist.
Fydor Vasilevich Mochulsky, Times Literary Supplement
original and suprising book
New York Review of Books
unique insight
The Spectator
Gulag Boss is essential reading and I could hardly put it down.
Literary Review
This tension between what Mochulsky saw as ... Read more
Fydor Vasilevich Mochulsky, Times Literary Supplement
original and suprising book
New York Review of Books
unique insight
The Spectator
Gulag Boss is essential reading and I could hardly put it down.
Literary Review
This tension between what Mochulsky saw as ... Read more