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Gulag Voices: Oral Histories of Soviet Incarceration and Exile

Categorie	Geschiedenis Rusland
Boeknummer	#428911-XA52
Titel	Gulag Voices: Oral Histories of Soviet Incarceration and Exile
Auteur	Gheith, J. & K. Jolluck
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	New York : Palgrave Macmillan
Jaar van uitgave	2011
ISBN10	0230610633
ISBN13	9780230610637
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, some illustrations in b/w, small maps, 8vo.
Samenvatting	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 cultur... (Lees verder)al context of Soviet and post-Soviet society.
Pagina's	256
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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