Gulag boss : a Soviet memoir /
The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world's eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag. But not until now has there been a memoir of life inside the camps written from the perspective of an actual employee of the Secret police. In this r...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Ruso |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. Gulag from the outside
- The NKVD : villain or protector?
- First acquaintance with Gulag NKVD : meeting at the Central Committee of the CPSU
- Meeting in the Cadres Department of Gulag NKVD
- 45 Days to Pechorlag
- pt. 2. Gulag from the inside
- At the Construction Administration
- Unit foreman, first contingent of prisoners : Soviet volunteer ski troops in the Finnish War
- The unit bosses
- A change in leadership at Pechorlag
- Transferred to the 93rd Unit, labor force : hardened criminals
- Attempted prisoner revolt in the 93rd Unit
- Boss and foreman at the 93rd Unit, labor force : political prisoners
- Threat of arrest
- The war
- Illness
- Recovery and return to work in the southern part of the camp
- Boss of a militarized section, labor force : captured German prisoners of war
- Boss of a railway division, labor force : professional railwaymen
- The "liberated" secretary of the Communist Youth Organization
- Fascist military landing force
- Deputy boss in the Political Department for Komsomol work at the NKVD's Road Building Camp No. 3
- pt. 3. Interesting asides
- Some railroad recollections
- Peschanka, a village of de-kulakized people on the River Pechora
- The countryside of Komi on the River Usa
- Women at Pechorlag
- A fellow traveler from Abez to Pechora
- pt. 4. Final words
- The end of my story
- The real essence of the Gulag
- Afterword: The nature of memoir
- Appendix 1: Pretexts for arrest during the Stalin period
- Appendix 2: Article 58 of the RSFSR Criminal Code
- Appendix 3: Glossary.