The Gulag Survivor
Subtitle: Beyond the Soviet System
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: October 10, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780765800718
Subjects: European history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Political imprisonment; Social issues; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; History - General History; History; Rehabilitation; History: World; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Russia; Political persecution; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Penology; History / Europe / Eastern; Former Soviet republics; Political prisoners; Psychological aspects; Soviet Union
Description: "Even before its dissolution in 1991, the Soviet Union was engaged in an ambivalent struggle to come to terms with its violent and repressive history. Following the death of Stalin in 1953, entrenched officials attempted to distance themselves from the late dictator without questioning the underlying legitimacy of the Soviet system. At the same time, the return of Gulag victims to society opened questions about the nature, reality, and mentality of the system that remain contentious to this day.

The Gulag Survivor is the first book to examine at length and in-depth the post-camp experience of Stalin's victims and their fate in post-Soviet Russia. As such, it is an essential companion to the classic work of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.".

"Based on extensive interviews, memoirs, offical records, and recently opened archives. The Gulag Survivor describes what survivors experienced when they returned to society, how officials helped or hindered them, and how issues surrounding the existence of the returnees evolved from the fifties up to the present."--BOOK JACKET.