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Gulag Voices

Applebaum, Anne

2011

Overview

Anne Applebaum wields her considerable knowledge of a dark chapter in human history and presents a collection of the writings of survivors of the Gulag, the Soviet concentration camps. Although the opening of the Soviet archives to scholars has made it possible to write the history of this notorious concentration camp system, documents tell only one side of the story.Gulag Voicesnow fills in the other half. The backgrounds of the writers reflect the extraordinary diversity of the Gulag itself. Here are the personal stories of such figures as Dmitri Likhachev, a renowned literary scholar; Anatoly Marchenko, the son of illiterate laborers; and Alexander Dolgun, an American citizen. These remembrances-many of them appearing in English for the first time, each chosen for both literary and historical value-collectively spotlight the strange moral universe of the camps, as well as the relationships that prisoners had with one another, with their guards, and with professional criminals who lived beside them. A vital addition to the literature of this era,annotated for a generation that no longer remembers the Soviet Union,Gulag Voiceswill inform, interest, and inspire, offering a source for reflection on human nature itself.

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Subject: 1925–1953 / 1953–1985 / Biography / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical / Concentration camps / Concentration camps -- Soviet Union -- History / Forced labor / Forced labor -- Soviet Union -- History / Forced labour / Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitel'no-trudovykh lagerei OGPU / Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitelʹno-trudovykh lagereĭ OGPU -- History / Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitel’no-trudovykh lagereĭ OGPU / History / Language & Literature / LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays / LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / General / Political prisoners / Political prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Biography / Political prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Social conditions / Political prisoners' writings, Russian / Prisoners / Prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Biography / Prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Social conditions / Prisons / Social conditions / Soviet Union / Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953 -- Biography / Soviet Union -- History -- 1953-1985 -- Biography / Stalinism / U.S.S.R
• ISBN: 0300153201, 9780300153200, 0300177836, 9780300177831