Gulag Voices - Oral Histories of Soviet Detention and Exile

Informationen zum Autor Jehanne M Gheith and Katherine R. Jolluck Klappentext In this volume! the powerful voices of Gulag survivors become accessible to English-speaking audiences for the first time through oral histories! rather than written memoirs. It brings together interviews with men and women! members of the working class and intelligentsia! people who live in the major cities and those from the "provinces!" and from an array of corrective hard labor camps and prisons across the former Soviet Union. Its aims are threefold: 1) to give a sense of the range of the Gulag experience and its consequences for Russian society; 2) to make the Gulag relevant to English-speaking readers by offering comparisons to historical catastrophes they are likely to know more about! such as the Holocaust; and 3) to discuss issues of oral history and memory in the cultural context of Soviet and post-Soviet society. Zusammenfassung In this volume! the powerful voices of Gulag survivors become accessible to English-speaking audiences for the first time through oral histories! rather than written memoirs. Inhaltsverzeichnis Forced Laborers in the Perm Region Exiled and Arrested Children of Enemies Children of Enemies and Then Arrested Documents: Survivor Accounts and Letters

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• Authors: J. Gheith, Jehanne M. Gheith, Jehanne M. Jolluck Gheith, GHEITH JEHANNE M JOLLUCK KATHER, K. Jolluck, Katherine R. Jolluck
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.02.2011
• EAN: 9780230610620
• ISBN: 978-0-230-61062-0
• No. of pages: 275
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History; Palgrave Studies in Oral Histo; Palgrave Studies in Oral History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous