| Gulag Voices: Oral Histories of Soviet Incarceration and Exile 2011 Edition Contributor(s): Gheith, J. (Author), Jolluck, K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0230610633 ISBN-13: 9780230610637 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $28.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - History | Historiography - History | Eastern Europe - General |
| Dewey: B |
| Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 9.1" (0.83 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |