Women of the Gulag : portraits of five remarkable lives

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During the course of three decades, Joseph Stalin's Gulag, a vast network of forced labor 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 o...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Gregory, Paul R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, 2013
Series:Hoover Institution Press publication ; 631.
Subjects:
GULag NKVD.
Women political prisoners > Soviet Union > Biography.
Political persecution > Soviet Union.
Internment camps > Soviet Union.
Prisons > Soviet Union.
Forced labor > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > History > 1925-1953.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Terror's human face
  • Stalin : struggles and successes
  • Agnessa : elite NKVD wife
  • Maria : portrait of the new Soviet family
  • Evgenia : luxury with a beast
  • Adile : princess bride of Abkhazia
  • Fekla : child of the kulaks
  • Stalin : the storm descends
  • Agnessa : crashing a funeral
  • Stalin : launching the great terror
  • Agnessa : the purge spreads far and wide
  • Maria : a narrow escape
  • Evgenia : socialist realist
  • Adile : the master will not abandon us
  • Fekla : becoming a Bolshevik
  • Stalin : the master needs a scapegoat
  • Agnessa : new year's eve with the Master
  • Maria : wife of a traitor to the motherland
  • Evgenia : losing everything
  • Adile : return and arrest
  • Fekla : face of the future
  • Aftermath.

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