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Women of the Gulag
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Description for Women of the Gulag
Hardcover. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JKVP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 566.
During the course of three decades, Joseph Stalin’s Gulag, a vast network of forced labour 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 victimised 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 stories of these five ... Read more
During the course of three decades, Joseph Stalin’s Gulag, a vast network of forced labour 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 victimised 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 stories of these five ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Stanford, United States
ISBN
9780817915742
SKU
V9780817915742
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About Unknown
Paul R. Gregory is the director of the Workshop on Totalitarian Regimes at the Hoover Institution, where he is a research fellow. He is also the Cullen Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Houston and a research professor at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin. He is the author of Before Command: The Russian Economy from ... Read more
Reviews for Women of the Gulag
[...] Women of the Gulag tells the fascinating stories of five representative Soviet women—Agnessa, Maria, Evgenia, Adile, and Fekla—drawn from across the class and geographic spectrums of the Soviet empire. Three of these women were connected to the highest echelons of the nomenclatura by marriage, though the common denominator is that all were arrested for the actions of their husbands ... Read more