Till My Tale Is Told - Women''s Memoirs of the Gulag

Informationen zum Autor Simeon Vilensky, a former political prisoner, a writer, and a poet, is founder of Vozvrashchenie, an organization in Moscow dedicated to preserving and publishing testimonies of Stalin's victims and aiding camp survivors. Klappentext "-The Women's Review of BooksArrest, interrogation, imprisonment, trial and sentencing, transport, labor camps, internal exile, sometimes release, often followed by re-arrest and re-imprisonment and, for those who outlived Stalin, eventual reprieve and rehabilitation these are the outlines of the experiences recorded by 16 courageous Russian women whose moving testimonies, most of them written in secret and at great personal risk, are presented here. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the Russian Edition by Simeon Vilensky Preface to the English Edition by Simeon Vilensky 1. Olga Adamova-Sliozberg, My Journey 2. Yelena Vladimirova, From "Kolyma: A Narrative Poem" 3. Bertha Babina-Nevskaya, My First Prison, February 1922 4. Nadezhda Grankina, Notes by Your Contemporary 5. Veronica Znamenskaya, To This Day 6. Vera Shulz, Taganka 7. Galina Zatmilova, A Part of History 8. Nadezhda Surovtseva, Memoirs of Kolyma 9. Yelena Sidorkina, Years Under Guard 10. Zoya Marchenko, How it Was 11. Anna Barkova, Selected Poems 12. Tamara Petkevich, Just One Fate 13. Tatyana Leshchenko-Sukhomlina, Selections from "My Guitar" 14. Hava Volovich, My Past 15. Nadezhda Kanel, A Meeting at the Lubyanka 16. Zayara Vesyolaya, 7-35 Afterword by John Crowfoot Important Dates Glossary Index

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• Authors: Simeon Vilensky, Simeon S. Vilensky
• Assisted by: Translated by John Crowfoot Marjorie Far (Editor), Simeon Vilensky (Editor), Simeon S. Vilensky (Editor), Simon Vilensky (Editor), John Crowfoot (Translation), Marjorie Farquharson (Translation), Catriona Kelly (Translation), Sally Laird (Translation), Cathy Porter (Translation)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.11.2001
• EAN: 9780253214768
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21476-8
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Indiana-Michigan Series in Rus; Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies; Indiana-Michigan Series in Rus; Indiana-Michigan Russian and E
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories