books: russian camp

books: russian camp

books:

Russian camp

Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors

Indiana University Press, 2000

"This is a ground-breaking book on a subject of capital importance, and I think [it] could start a debate about modern literature with rich potential for further development." -Michael Scammell This first systematic literary investigation of memoiristic and fictional narratives dealing with the experience of the prisoners of Soviet concentration ...

Antwerp to Gallipoli - A Year of the War on Many Fronts - and Behind Them

LeClue22, 2008

A look at the first world war from the Fall of Antwerp to the Battle of Gallipoli. Told from the point of view of an eye wittiness to these battles. "The Germans had already entered Brussels, their scouts were reported on the outskirts of Ghent; a little farther now, over behind the horizon wind-mills, and we might at any moment come on them."

Guide to State Parks of the Sonoma Coast and Russian River
Stephen W. Hinch

Annadel Press, 1998

An hour's drive north of San Francisco lies one of the most spectacular sections of Pacific shoreline in all of California. Stretching from Bodega Bay to Gualala Point, the Sonoma Coast extends across sixty miles of windswept cliffs, isolated beaches, and crashing surf. Four state parks help protect the natural beauty and historical significance ...

Labor Camp Socialism: The Gulag in the Soviet Totalitarian System (New Russian History)
Galina Mikhailovna Ivanova

M.E. Sharpe, 2000

My thirty-third year;: A priest's experience in a Russian work camp

Gerhard Fittkau

Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1958

A Catholic Priest In the Gulag
Recounting his experience in the gulag (Russian Work Prison Camp) at Vorkuta, after being sent their from his rural parish in Suessenberg, East Prussia when the Soviet Army went through in 1944.

The Gulag Handbook: An Encyclopedia Dictionary of Soviet Penitentiary Institutions and Terms Related to the ...
Jacques Rossi, Robert Conquest

Paragon House Publishers, 1989

The Russian language original of The Gulag Handbook was published in London 1987; the English language version, New York 1989; the second Russian language edition, Moscow 1991; the Japanese, Tokyo 1996; the French, Paris 1997, the Czech, Prague 1999.

The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2002

The nail in the coffin of the Soviet State
"A stone is not a human being, and even stones get crushed." This was an absolutely brutal, yet enlightening read. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a young, decorated Red Army officer who served bravely during the war, only to be arrested, tortured, and sent to the Gulag ...

As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Escape from a Siberian Labour Camp ...

Josef M. Bauer, Josef Bauer

Da Capo Press, 2003

Exceeded my Expectations
A tremendous film that attempts to capture the trek made by those rounded up during Stalins collectivazation. I dont think there are any other movies that are so emotional and hard hitting as this that deals with the gulags. One of the best movies I have ever seen.

Youth Lost in Red Hell

Bela Gogos

Pentland Press (NC), 2004

A horrific ordeal in the mines of Arctic Russia
Very highly recommended reading, Bela Gogos' Youth Lost In Red Hell is an autobiography story of survival under the most brutal conditions. Following one young man's service in the Royal Hungarian Air Force, and Bela's horrific ordeal in the mines of Arctic Russia (a ...

Territories of Terror: Mythologies and Memories of the Gulag in Contemporary Russian-American Art
Svetlana Boym

Boston University Art Gallery, 2007

This volume records one of the first attempts to tackle the dual imperative of Gulag history and mythology, map and territory, through contemporary art. Seven internationally recognized contemporary artists--Vitaly Komar and Alexander Meiamid, Leonid Sokov, Grisha Bruskin, Eugene Yelchin, Irena Nakhova, and Vadim Zakharov--who grew up in the ...