Gulag Survivor - Beyond the Soviet System

The Gulag Survivor, now available in paperback, is the first book to examine at length and in-depth the post-camp experience of Stalins victims and their fate in post-Soviet Russia. It is an essential companion to the classic work of Aleksandr Solhenitsyn. Based on extensive interviews, memoirs, official records, and recently opened archives, The Gulag Survivor describes what survivors experienced when they returned to society, how officials helped or hindered them, and how issues surrounding their existence evolved from the 1950s to the present. It is an essential work in modern Russian history.

List of contents

Introduction; 1: Defining the Parameters; 2: The First Return: Between Liberation and Liberalization, 1947-1953; 3: The System’s Adaptation to Repression, 1953-55; 4: The Impact of Repression on Readaptation; 5: The Politics of Readaptation and Resocialization Procedures: Policy and Practice before and after the XX Party Congress; 6: The Effect of Repression and Readaptation on Both the Returnees and the Political System; 7: The Victims Strike Again: The Reemergence of Returnees in the Eighties and Nineties

About the author

Nanci Adler

Summary

Even before its dissolution in 1991, the Soviet Union was engaged in an ambivalent struggle to come to terms with its violent and repressive history

Product details

• Authors: Nanci Adler, Nanci D. Adler, Adler Nanci
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2001
• EAN: 9780765800718
• ISBN: 978-0-7658-0071-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Russia, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / Europe / General, Social issues & processes, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and ethical issues, Political oppression & persecution, Political oppression and persecution, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era