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| Author | : Frank Pleszak |
| Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2013-02-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1445626047 |
The true story of a Polish peasant exiled to the harsh Gulags of north-eastern Siberia during the Second World War
| Author | : Anne Applebaum |
| Publisher | : Anchor |
| Total Pages | : 738 |
| Release | : 2007-12-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0307426122 |
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • This magisterial and acclaimed history offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost. “A tragic testimony to how evil ideologically inspired dictatorships can be.” –The New York Times The Gulag—a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners—was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. Applebaum intimately re-creates what life was like in the camps and links them to the larger history of the Soviet Union. Immediately recognized as a landmark and long-overdue work of scholarship, Gulag is an essential book for anyone who wishes to understand the history of the twentieth century.
| Author | : Stephen F. Cohen |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2013-02-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0857730622 |
Stalin's reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called 'the other Holocaust'. During the Stalin years, it is thought that more innocent men, women and children perished than in Hitler's destruction of the European Jews. Many millions died in Stalin's Gulag of torture prisons and forced-labour camps, yet others survived and were freed after his death in 1953. This book is the story of the survivors. Long kept secret by Soviet repression and censorship, it is now told by renowned author and historian Stephen F. Cohen, who came to know many former Gulag inmates during his frequent trips to Moscow over a period of thirty years. Based on first-hand interviews with the victims themselves and on newly available materials, Cohen provides a powerful narrative of the survivors' post-Gulag saga, from their liberation and return to Soviet society, to their long struggle to salvage what remained of their shattered lives and to obtain justice. Spanning more than fifty years, "The Victims Return" combines individual stories with the fierce political conflicts that raged, both in society and in the Kremlin, over the victims of the terror and the people who had victimized them. This compelling book will be essential reading for anyone interested in Russian history.
| Author | : Ivan G. Goldman |
| Publisher | : Potomac Books, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2013-06-30 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1612344879 |
In America, 2.3 million people-a population about the size of Houston's, the country's fourth-largest city-live behind bars. Sick Justice explores the economic, social, and political forces that hijacked the criminal justice system to create this bizarre situation. Presenting frightening true stories of (sometimes wrongfully) incarcerated individuals, Ivan G. Goldman exposes the inept bureaucracies of America's prisons and shows the real reasons that disproportionate numbers of minorities, the poor, and the mentally ill end up there. Goldman dissects the widespread phenomenon of jailing for profit, the outsized power of prison guards' unions, California's exceptionally rigid three-strikes law, the ineffective and never-ending war on drugs, the closing of mental health institutions across the country, and other blunders and avaricious practices that have brought us to this point. Sick Justice tells a big, gripping story that's long overdue. By illuminating the system's brutality and greed and the prisoners' gratuitous suffering, the book aims to be a catalyst for reform, complementing the work of the Innocence Project and mirroring the effects of Michael Harrington's The Other America: Poverty in the United States (1962), which became the driving force behind the war on poverty.
| Author | : Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit͡syn |
| Publisher | : CNIB, 197 |
| Total Pages | : 680 |
| Release | : 1974 |
| Genre | : Concentration camps |
| ISBN | : 9780060139148 |
Drawing on his own experiences before, during, and after his 11 years of incarceration and exile, Solzhenitsyn reveals with torrential narrative and dramatic power the entire apparatus of Soviet repression. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims, we encounter the secret police operations, the labor camps and prisons, the uprooting or extermination of whole populations. Yet we also witness astounding moral courage, the incorruptibility with which the occasional individual or a few scattered groups, all defenseless, endured brutality and degradation. Solzhenitsyn's genius has transmuted this grisly indictment into a literary miracle.
| Author | : Michael E. Allen |
| Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 101 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Prisoners of war |
| ISBN | : 1428980024 |
| Author | : Janusz Bardach |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2003-05 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0520237358 |
In the critically acclaimed "Man Is Wolf to Man, " Bardach recounted his horrific experiences in the Kolyma labor camps in northeastern Siberia. In this sequel, Bardach presents a unique portrait of postwar Stalinist Moscow as seen through the eyes of a person who is both an insider and outsider. 20 photos.
| Author | : Paul R. Gregory |
| Publisher | : Hoover Institution Press |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2013-09-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0817915761 |
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 oral reminiscences of five women victimized by the Gulag, author Paul R. Gregory has stitched together a collection of stories from the female perspective, a view in short supply. Capturing the fear, paranoia, and unbearable hardship that were hallmarks of Stalin’s Great Terror, Gregory relates the stories of five women from different social strata and regions in vivid prose, from their pre-Gulag lives, through their struggles to survive in the repressive atmosphere of the late 1930s and early 1940s, to the difficulties facing the four who survived as they adjusted to life after the Gulag. These firsthand accounts illustrate how even the wrong word could become a crime against the state. The book begins with a synopsis of Stalin’s rise to power, the roots of the Gulag, and the scheming and plotting that led to and persisted in one of the bloodiest, most egregious dictatorships of the 20th century.
| Author | : Mark Dow |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 428 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 0520246691 |
The freelance writer and poet takes an unprecedented look inside the secret and repressive world of U.S. immigration prisons.
| Author | : Masha Gessen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780997722963 |
,"A book that belongs on the shelf alongside The Gulag Archipelago. -- Kirkus Reviews A haunting literary and visual journey deep into Russia's past -- and present. The Gulag was a monstrous network of labor camps that held and killed millions of prisoners from the 1930s to the 1950s. More than half a century after the end of Stalinist terror, the geography of the Gulag has been barely sketched and the number of its victims remains unknown. Has the Gulag been forgotten?Writer Masha Gessen and photographer Misha Friedman set out across Russia in search of the memory of the Gulag. They journey from Moscow to Sandarmokh, a forested site of mass executions during Stalin's Great Terror; to the only Gulag camp turned into a museum, outside of the city of Perm in the Urals; and to Kolyma, where prisoners worked in deadly mines in the remote reaches of the Far East. They find that in Vladimir Putin's Russia, where Stalin is remembered as a great leader, Soviet terror has not been forgotten: it was never remembered in the first place.
