Title: Memoir of a Gulag actress
Description: This is the memoir of a young woman who became an actress in the Gulag. Tamara Petkevich had a relatively privileged childhood in the beautiful, impoverished Petrograd of the Soviet regime's early years, but when her father--a believer in the Communist ideal--was arrested, 17-year-old Tamara was branded a "daughter of the enemy of the people." She searched for her father while struggling to support her mother and two sisters, finish school, and enter university. Shortly before the Russian outbreak of World War II, Petkevich was forced to quit school and, against her better judgment, she married an exiled man whom she had met in the lines at the information bureau of the NKVD (People{u2019}s Commissariat of Internal Affairs). Her mother and one sister perished in the Nazi siege of Leningrad, and Petkevich was herself arrested. This book relates her attempts to defend herself against charges of having a connection to the Leningrad terrorist center, counter-revolutionary propaganda, and anti-Semitism that resulted in a sentence of seven years' hard labor in the Gulag.
Subjects: Actresses, Politics and government, Concentration camp theater, Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitelʹno-trudovykh lagereĭ OGPU, Political prisoners, Purges, Women political prisoners, Political persecution, Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za, Biography, History, Political prisoners, soviet union, Political prisoners, biography, Concentration camps, Soviet union, history, 1925-1953, Soviet union, politics and government, 1917-1991, Soviet union, biography, Women, soviet union, Internment camp theater, Nazi concentration camp theater, Kommunisticheskai͡a partii͡a Sovetskogo Soi͡uza, Political purges
Places: Soviet Union
People: T. V. Petkevich
Time periods: 1925-1953, 1936-1953