Women of the Gulag

Informationen zum Autor Paul Gregory directs 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. Klappentext The stories of five very different women who endured Stalin's Gulag-- from a peasant girl sent to a remote Ural "special settlement" to the fearful teenage sister-in-law of a high party official. >Drawing from the Soviet archives that were opened in the 1990s and personal, handwritten, or typed accounts that have been hidden away for decades, Gregory takes us on five separate journeys of fear, betrayal, hardship, and survival. These personal stories reveal the particular punishments reserved for women, such as sexual enslavement, and describe the difficulty the four surviving women had in adjusting to a post-Gulag life. Woven throughout the narratives are real-life accounts of Stalin and his henchmen as they drafted their draconian decrees.

Product details

• Authors: Paul R Gregory, Paul R. Gregory
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.04.2013
• EAN: 9780817915742
• ISBN: 978-0-8179-1574-2
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Russland, UdSSR, Sowjetunion, Europäische Geschichte, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, Biography / Autobiography, HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union