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Women of the Gulag - Portraits of Five Remarkable Lives (Hardcover)
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Women of the Gulag - Portraits of Five Remarkable Lives (Hardcover)
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During the course of three decades, Joseph Stalin's Gulag, a vast
network of forced labour camps and settlements, held many millions
of prisoners. People in every corner of the Soviet Union lived in
daily terror of imprisonment and execution. In researching the
surviving threads of memoirs and oral reminiscences of five women
victimised by the Gulag, Paul Gregory has stitched together a
collection of stories from the female perspective, a view in short
supply in the literature. Capturing the fear, paranoia, and
unbearable hardship that were hallmarks of Stalin's Great Terror,
Gregory relates the stories of these five women-from different
social strata and regions-in vivid prose, from their pre-Gulag
lives, through their struggles to survive in the repressive
atmosphere of the late 1930s and early 1940s, to the difficulties
facing the four who survived as they adjusted to life after the
Gulag. These firsthand accounts illustrate how even the wrong word
could become a crime against the state. Gregory begins with a
synopsis of Stalin's rise to power, the roots of the Gulag, and the
scheming and plotting that led to and persisted in one of the
bloodiest, most egregious dictatorships of the twentieth century.
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