Gulag letters /

Emily Johnson has translated and edited a fascinating collection of letters written by Arsenii Formakov, a Latvian Russian poet, novelist, and journalist, during two terms in Soviet labour camps, 1940 to 1947 in Kraslag and 1949 to 1955 in Kamyshlag and Ozerlag. This correspondence, which Formakov m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Formakov, Arseniĭ (Autor)
Otros Autores: Johnson, Emily D. (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Ruso
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
Colección:Yale-Hoover series on authoritarian regimes.
Temas:
Formakov, Arseniĭ > Correspondence.
Political prisoners > Soviet Union > Correspondence.
Poets, Latvian > Correspondence.
Labor camps > Soviet Union.
Prisonniers politiques > URSS > Correspondance.
Abris pour travailleurs > URSS.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
Labor camps
Poets, Latvian
Political prisoners
Soviet Union
personal correspondence.
Personal correspondence
Personal correspondence.
Correspondance privée.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Emily Johnson has translated and edited a fascinating collection of letters written by Arsenii Formakov, a Latvian Russian poet, novelist, and journalist, during two terms in Soviet labour camps, 1940 to 1947 in Kraslag and 1949 to 1955 in Kamyshlag and Ozerlag. This correspondence, which Formakov mailed home to his family in Riga, provides readers with a first-hand account of the workings of the Soviet penal system and testifies to the hardships of daily life for Latvian prisoners in the Gulag.
Notas:Translated from the Russian.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780300228199
0300228198

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