Author: Alexander Dolgun
Publisher: Library Development Commission
ISBN: 9780394494975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Alexander Dolgun compelled himself to reconstruct his long ordeal at the hands of the Soviet Secret Police. As a 22 year old young American, son of one of the American engineers who took jobs in Russia during the depression, He was stopped by Secret Police, and became prisoner of the MGB for 18 months of hell.
Alexander Dolgun's Story
Author: Alexander Dolgun
Publisher: Library Development Commission
ISBN: 9780394494975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Alexander Dolgun compelled himself to reconstruct his long ordeal at the hands of the Soviet Secret Police. As a 22 year old young American, son of one of the American engineers who took jobs in Russia during the depression, He was stopped by Secret Police, and became prisoner of the MGB for 18 months of hell.
Publisher: Library Development Commission
ISBN: 9780394494975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Alexander Dolgun compelled himself to reconstruct his long ordeal at the hands of the Soviet Secret Police. As a 22 year old young American, son of one of the American engineers who took jobs in Russia during the depression, He was stopped by Secret Police, and became prisoner of the MGB for 18 months of hell.
Gulag Voices
Author: Anne Applebaum
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300160127
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Collects the writings of a diverse group of people who survived imprisonment in the Gulag, recounting their experiences and relationships, and offering insight into the psychological aspects of life in the camps.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300160127
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Collects the writings of a diverse group of people who survived imprisonment in the Gulag, recounting their experiences and relationships, and offering insight into the psychological aspects of life in the camps.
Far Tortuga
Author: Peter Matthiessen
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0394756673
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
An adventure story and a deeply considered meditation upon the sea itself. "Beautiful and original...a resonant and symbolical story of nine doomed men who dream of an earthly paradise as the world winds down around them." —Newsweek
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0394756673
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
An adventure story and a deeply considered meditation upon the sea itself. "Beautiful and original...a resonant and symbolical story of nine doomed men who dream of an earthly paradise as the world winds down around them." —Newsweek
The English Prisoner
Author: Tig Hague
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141959029
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
In July 2003 young Englishman Tig Hague was on a routine business trip to Moscow when he was arrested at the airport. Within hours he was accused of a major crime. Next, he was tried and transported hundreds of miles to the remote, forsaken wastes of Mordovia.And prison camp Zone 22. Sentenced to spend the next four years there, every day was a struggle against disease, freezing temperatures, malnutrition, the unpredictable, sometimes terrifying behaviour of the camp guards and his fellow prisoners.But, most of all, it was a fight to ensure his own psychological survival. Only the thought of his girlfriend Lucy, fighting Russia's corrupt and labyrinthine legal system, kept Tig sane - and gave him a reason to see each day to its end. The English Prisoner is an extraordinary story of endurance, as one man - plucked from his normal, everyday life - is forced to reach deep inside himself to survive life in one of the bleakest outposts in the world: Russia's vast and unforgiving 'forgotten zone'.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141959029
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
In July 2003 young Englishman Tig Hague was on a routine business trip to Moscow when he was arrested at the airport. Within hours he was accused of a major crime. Next, he was tried and transported hundreds of miles to the remote, forsaken wastes of Mordovia.And prison camp Zone 22. Sentenced to spend the next four years there, every day was a struggle against disease, freezing temperatures, malnutrition, the unpredictable, sometimes terrifying behaviour of the camp guards and his fellow prisoners.But, most of all, it was a fight to ensure his own psychological survival. Only the thought of his girlfriend Lucy, fighting Russia's corrupt and labyrinthine legal system, kept Tig sane - and gave him a reason to see each day to its end. The English Prisoner is an extraordinary story of endurance, as one man - plucked from his normal, everyday life - is forced to reach deep inside himself to survive life in one of the bleakest outposts in the world: Russia's vast and unforgiving 'forgotten zone'.
Return from the Archipelago
Author: Leona Toker
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253337870
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Comprehensive historical survey and critical analysis of the vast body of narrative literature about the Soviet gulag. Leona Toker organizes and characterizes both fictional narratives and survivors' memoirs as she explores the changing hallmarks of the genre from the 1920s through the Gorbachev era. Toker reflects on the writings and testimonies that shed light on the veiled aspects of totalitarianism, dehumanization, and atrocity. Identifying key themes that recur in the narratives -- arrest, the stages of trial, imprisonment, labor camps, exile, escapes, special punishment, the role of chance, and deprivation -- Toker discusses the historical, political, and social contexts of these accounts and the ethical and aesthetic imperative they fulfill. Her readings provide extraordinary insight into prisoners' experiences of the Soviet penal system. Special attention is devoted to the writings of Varlam Shalamov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, but many works that are not well known in the West, especially those by women, are addressed. Consideration is also given to events that recently brought many memoirs to light years after they were written.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253337870
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Comprehensive historical survey and critical analysis of the vast body of narrative literature about the Soviet gulag. Leona Toker organizes and characterizes both fictional narratives and survivors' memoirs as she explores the changing hallmarks of the genre from the 1920s through the Gorbachev era. Toker reflects on the writings and testimonies that shed light on the veiled aspects of totalitarianism, dehumanization, and atrocity. Identifying key themes that recur in the narratives -- arrest, the stages of trial, imprisonment, labor camps, exile, escapes, special punishment, the role of chance, and deprivation -- Toker discusses the historical, political, and social contexts of these accounts and the ethical and aesthetic imperative they fulfill. Her readings provide extraordinary insight into prisoners' experiences of the Soviet penal system. Special attention is devoted to the writings of Varlam Shalamov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, but many works that are not well known in the West, especially those by women, are addressed. Consideration is also given to events that recently brought many memoirs to light years after they were written.
A Boy in the Gulag
Author: Jerzy Kmiecik
Publisher: Quartet Books (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher: Quartet Books (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Gulag Study
Author: Michael E. Allen
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428980024
Category : Prisoners of war
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428980024
Category : Prisoners of war
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Without Vodka
Author: Aleksander Topolski
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prisoners of war
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Can't figure it out." Ultimately Topolski escapes into Iran to join the Polish 2nd Corps which is being formed there to fight the Germans . . . but that's another story.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prisoners of war
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Can't figure it out." Ultimately Topolski escapes into Iran to join the Polish 2nd Corps which is being formed there to fight the Germans . . . but that's another story.
The Perversion Of Knowledge
Author: Dr. Vadim J. Birstein
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 078675186X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
During the Soviet years, Russian science was touted as one of the greatest successes of the regime. Russian science was considered to be equal, if not superior, to that of the wealthy western nations. The Perversion of Knowledge, a history of Soviet science that focuses on its control by the KGB and the Communist Party, reveals the dark side of this glittering achievement. Based on the author's firsthand experience as a Soviet scientist, and drawing on extensive Russian language sources not easily available to the Western reader, the book includes shocking new information on biomedical experimentation on humans as well as an examination of the pernicious effects of Trofim Lysenko's pseudo-biology. Also included are many poignant case histories of those who collaborated and those who managed to resist, focusing on the moral choices and consequences. The text is accompanied by the author's own translations of key archival materials, making this work an essential resource for all those with a serious interest in Russian history.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 078675186X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
During the Soviet years, Russian science was touted as one of the greatest successes of the regime. Russian science was considered to be equal, if not superior, to that of the wealthy western nations. The Perversion of Knowledge, a history of Soviet science that focuses on its control by the KGB and the Communist Party, reveals the dark side of this glittering achievement. Based on the author's firsthand experience as a Soviet scientist, and drawing on extensive Russian language sources not easily available to the Western reader, the book includes shocking new information on biomedical experimentation on humans as well as an examination of the pernicious effects of Trofim Lysenko's pseudo-biology. Also included are many poignant case histories of those who collaborated and those who managed to resist, focusing on the moral choices and consequences. The text is accompanied by the author's own translations of key archival materials, making this work an essential resource for all those with a serious interest in Russian history.
Alexander Dolgun's Story
Author: Alexander Dolgun
Publisher: [London] : Fontana/Collins
ISBN: 9780006342823
Category : Convicts
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher: [London] : Fontana/Collins
ISBN: 9780006342823
Category : Convicts
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description