Jacques the Frenchman : Memories of the Gulag /

Jacques Rossi is one of Stalin's most well-known victims. Author of The Gulag Handbook, a fascinating encyclopedia of the Soviet forced labor camps, Rossi spent twenty years in interrogation, prison, and Gulag detention. Born to a prominent Polish father and French mother, the young Jacques bec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Rossi, Jacques (Autor), Sarde, Michele (Autor)
Otros Autores: Alexopoulos, Golfo (Contribuidor), Colombant, Kersti, David-Fox, Michael (Contribuidor), Golfo Alexopoulos, Golfo (Editor ), Sarde, Michèle (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
Temas:
HISTORY / Europe / Eastern.
Cold War.
European history.
France.
Gulag.
Jacques Rossi.
Khrushchev.
Poland.
Soviet Union.
Stalin.
World War II.
communism.
labor camps.
memoirs.
memory.
socialism.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • The Meeting
  • PART 1. Before
  • 1. Never Again
  • 2. The Established Order
  • 3. The Future of the Worldwide Proletariat Is More Important than One's Career!
  • 4. The Fugitive
  • 5. Secret Agent
  • 6. Let Them Stuff Themselves with Caviar! They Won't Grow Old!
  • 7. Early Indications of an Announced Arrest
  • 8. The Trap
  • PART 2. During
  • 9. From the Dog House to the Train Station
  • 10. We Don't Torture Foreigners
  • 11. Confess, Filthy Fascist!
  • 12. On Interrogations
  • 13. Everyday Life at the Butyrka Prison
  • 14. The Story of a Blind Man and Coffee with Milk
  • 15. The Verdict: Now We're Going to Put into Practice Marxist-Leninist Theory
  • 16. Destination Unknown
  • 17. Transit: May Your Memory Be Your Only Travel Bag!
  • 18. An Operatic Voice on the Yenisei
  • 19. Dudinka: The End of the World
  • 20. The Polar Night
  • 21. Surviving
  • 22. Yes, I Am a Communist and You Are Too; Only Between Us There Is Barbed Wire
  • 23. How Jacques the Frenchman Ceased to Be a Communist
  • 24. The Friends of the People
  • 25. Continuing in Spite of Oneself
  • 26. The Rebel: The First Hunger Strike
  • 27. In the Central Prison of Alexandrovsk
  • 28. The Beginning of the End
  • 29. "I Choose Samarkand"
  • PART 3. After
  • 30. "Sir, You Are Dripping Snow on My Floors!"
  • 31. In Central Asia: The Man Who Came from a Country with No Collective Farms
  • 32. To Comrade Khrushchev [Stop] I Jacques Rossi [Stop] a Free Citizen [Stop] Am Starting a Hunger Strike [Stop] with No Time Limit and Until Death
  • 33. Communist Poland: Origins of The Gulag Handbook
  • 34. Seeing Paris Again
  • 35. Life after Communism
  • IN PLACE OF AN EPILOGUE: Paris, Autumn 2001
  • Afterword to the English Edition: A Man of Secrets
  • Notes
  • Index

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