Escape From Kolyma

Author : Chester Litvin PhD
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781532065439

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Escape from Kolyma by Chester Litvin PhD Pdf

Professor Stepan Kryvoruchko PhD is a scholar who believes that Aborigin, an area soiled by ruination, is inflicted with psychological infections. Viruses were killing individuality. Aborigin’s Superior Leader, a dictator and tyrant who designed a crematory with a network of labor camps, has moved modern Aborigine back to Golden Horde time. As a collective imposes its doctrine on the population, no one knows what is next. Aaron Kaufman has the misfortune of living in Aborigin. Although atrocities have taken the lives of millions including many of his relatives, Aaron has somehow managed to survive. Unfortunately, lies are everywhere. The collective has created double standards in an attempt to alter the nature of man. While the doctrine speaks of the birth of a new, refined man and declared rogues as socially friendly, the collective creates competitions for terrestrials while developing a system of pacifying rebels. Now only time will tell if Aaron find a way to escape the ruthless collective and carve out a new life for himself and whether Professor Kryvoruchko will somehow find the reason for the infection that is plaguing the people of Aborigin. In this science fiction tale, a professor and a young man living in an area devastated by a ruthless dictator embark on separate journeys to learn the truth about themselves and their destinies.

Author : Jacek Hugo-Bader
Publisher : Portobello Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781846275036

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Kolyma Diaries by Jacek Hugo-Bader Pdf

From the author of the award-winning White Fever, Kolyma Diaries is an excursion into one of the world's last remaining badlands, a place full of Gulag ghosts and living wrecks. All along the 2000 kilometres of the Kolyma highway, Bader is plied with vodka. He hears mesmerizing, sometimes devastating, tales of the journeys that brought his 'fellow travellers', the people who give him lifts, to this benighted land. This is a book about the descendants of prisoners eking out a living, of conmen and veterans and scrap iron dealers, of corrupt politicians and organised crime. Stories are told of sons given away, husbands who reappear after three decades, scholars who now survive by foraging for mushrooms and berries, sculptors who hoard the heads lopped off statues of Lenin, miners who dig up mass graves while looking for gold, and all the addicts, convicts, fallen heroes and even sportsmen who run away from their troubles and end up in the most remote region in Russia

Author : Varlan Shalamov
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1994-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141961958

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Kolyma Tales by Varlan Shalamov Pdf

It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in these stories he vividly captures the lives of ordinary people caught up in terrible circumstances, whose hopes and plans extended to further than a few hours This new enlarged edition combines two collections previously published in the United States as Kolyma Tales and Graphite.

Author : Robert Conquest
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Forced labor
ISBN : NWU:35556016894701

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Kolyma by Robert Conquest Pdf

Based mainly on the experiences of ex-prisoners in north-eastern Siberia, 1932-54.

Author : Varlam Shalamov
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681372150

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Kolyma Stories by Varlam Shalamov Pdf

A masterpiece of 20th-century Russian literature—now in its first complete English translation “One of the greatest Russian writers of short stories” chronicles life in a Soviet gulag, drawing on his own years in a USSR prison camp and laying bare the perils of totalitarianism (Financial Times). Kolyma Stories is a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, an epic array of short fictional tales reflecting the fifteen years that Varlam Shalamov spent in the Soviet Gulag. This is the first of two volumes (the second to appear in 2019) that together will constitute the first complete English translation of Shalamov’s stories and the only one to be based on the authorized Russian text. Shalamov spent six years as a slave in the gold mines of Kolyma before finding a less intolerable life as a paramedic in the prison camps. He began writing his account of life in Kolyma after Stalin’s death in 1953. His stories are at once the biography of a rare survivor, a historical record of the Gulag, and a literary work of unparalleled creative power, insight, and conviction.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1776 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015038769181

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Hearings by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119546252

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To Abolish Forced Labor Through ILO. by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare Pdf

Author : JACEK. HUGO-BADER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1846275040

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KOLYMA DIARIES by JACEK. HUGO-BADER Pdf

Author : Karl Schlögel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691183749

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The Soviet Century by Karl Schlögel Pdf

An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it really like to live in the USSR? What did it look, feel, smell, and sound like? In The Soviet Century, Karl Schlögel, one of the world’s leading historians of the Soviet Union, presents a spellbinding epic that brings to life the everyday world of a unique lost civilization. A museum of—and travel guide to—the Soviet past, The Soviet Century explores in evocative detail both the largest and smallest aspects of life in the USSR, from the Gulag, the planned economy, the railway system, and the steel city of Magnitogorsk to cookbooks, military medals, prison camp tattoos, and the ubiquitous perfume Red Moscow. The book examines iconic aspects of Soviet life, including long queues outside shops, cramped communal apartments, parades, and the Lenin mausoleum, as well as less famous but important parts of the USSR, including the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, the voice of Radio Moscow, graffiti, and even the typical toilet, which became a pervasive social and cultural topic. Throughout, the book shows how Soviet life simultaneously combined utopian fantasies, humdrum routine, and a pervasive terror symbolized by the Lubyanka, then as now the headquarters of the secret police. Drawing on Schlögel’s decades of travel in the Soviet and post-Soviet world, and featuring more than eighty illustrations, The Soviet Century is vivid, immediate, and grounded in firsthand encounters with the places and objects it describes. The result is an unforgettable account of the Soviet Century.

Author : Anne Applebaum
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307426123

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Gulag by Anne Applebaum Pdf

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • This magisterial and acclaimed history offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost. “A tragic testimony to how evil ideologically inspired dictatorships can be.” –The New York Times The Gulag—a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners—was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. Applebaum intimately re-creates what life was like in the camps and links them to the larger history of the Soviet Union. Immediately recognized as a landmark and long-overdue work of scholarship, Gulag is an essential book for anyone who wishes to understand the history of the twentieth century.

Author : Cathy A. Frierson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300210736

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Silence Was Salvation by Cathy A. Frierson Pdf

Roughly ten million children were victims of political repression in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist era, the sons and daughters of peasants, workers, scientists, physicians, and political leaders considered by the regime to be dangerous to the political order. Ten grown victims, who as children suffered banishment, starvation, disease, anti-Semitism, and trauma resulting from their parents’ condemnation and arrest, now freely share their stories. The result is a powerful and moving oral history that will profoundly deepen the reader’s understanding of life in the U.S.S.R. under the despotic reign of Joseph Stalin.

Author : Leona Toker
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0253337879

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Return from the Archipelago by Leona Toker Pdf

Comprehensive historical survey and critical analysis of the vast body of narrative literature about the Soviet gulag. Leona Toker organizes and characterizes both fictional narratives and survivors' memoirs as she explores the changing hallmarks of the genre from the 1920s through the Gorbachev era. Toker reflects on the writings and testimonies that shed light on the veiled aspects of totalitarianism, dehumanization, and atrocity. Identifying key themes that recur in the narratives -- arrest, the stages of trial, imprisonment, labor camps, exile, escapes, special punishment, the role of chance, and deprivation -- Toker discusses the historical, political, and social contexts of these accounts and the ethical and aesthetic imperative they fulfill. Her readings provide extraordinary insight into prisoners' experiences of the Soviet penal system. Special attention is devoted to the writings of Varlam Shalamov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, but many works that are not well known in the West, especially those by women, are addressed. Consideration is also given to events that recently brought many memoirs to light years after they were written.

Author : Frank Pleszak
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445626048

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Two Years in a Gulag by Frank Pleszak Pdf

The true story of a Polish peasant exiled to the harsh Gulags of north-eastern Siberia during the Second World War

Author : Sara Wheeler
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1429991941

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The Magnetic North by Sara Wheeler Pdf

A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title More than a decade ago, Sara Wheeler traveled to Antarctica to understand a continent nearly lost to myth and lore. In the widely acclaimed, bestselling Terra Incognita, she chronicled her quest to find a hidden history buried in Antarctica's extreme surroundings. Now, Wheeler journeys to the opposite pole to create a definitive picture of life on the fringes. In The Magnetic North, she takes full measure of the Arctic: at once the most pristine place on earth and the locus of global warming. Inspired by the spiraling shape of a reindeer-horn bangle, she travels counterclockwise around the North Pole through the territories belonging to Russia, the United States, Canada, Denmark, Norway, and Finland, marking the transformations of what once seemed an unchangeable landscape. As she witnesses the mounting pollution concentrated at the pole, Wheeler reckons with the illness of the whole organism of the earth. Smashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, shadowing the endless Trans-Alaska Pipeline with a tough Idaho-born outdoorswoman, herding reindeer with the Lapps, and visiting the haunting, deceptively peaceful lands of the Gulag, Wheeler brings the Arctic's many contradictions to life. The Magnetic North is an urgent, beautiful book, rich in dramatic description and vivid reporting. It is a singular, deeply personal portrait of a region growing daily in global importance.

Author : Martine Robbeets,Hubert Cuyckens
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027272140

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Shared Grammaticalization by Martine Robbeets,Hubert Cuyckens Pdf

This book offers fresh perspectives on “shared grammaticalization”, a state whereby two or more languages have the source and the target of a grammaticalization process in common. While contact-induced grammaticalization has generated great interest in recent years, far less attention has been paid to other factors that may give rise to shared grammaticalization. This book intends to put this situation right by approaching shared grammaticalization from an integrated perspective, including areal as well as genealogical and universal motivations and by searching for ways to distinguish between these factors. The volume offers a wealth of empirical facts, presented by internationally renowned specialists, on the Transeurasian languages (i.e. Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic) — the languages in focus —as well as on various other languages. Shared Grammaticalization will appeal to scholars and advanced students concerned with linguistic reconstruction, language contact and linguistic typology, and to anyone interested in grammaticalization theory.