Ukrainky v Hulahu : vyzŁhyty znachyt£ peremohty. English
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 593-615) and index.
Contents:
The daily life of women in the Gulag in research and personal memoirs -- Living conditions in prisons and camps in the 1940s and 1950s -- National identity and Christian faith during imprisonment -- Creativity and free time -- Humanity and femininity in captivity -- Body, sexuality, and love -- Motherhood behind bars : a cursed blessing.
Summary:
"Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian women were sentenced to the GULAG in the 1940s and 1950s. Only about half of them survived. In Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag, Oksana Kis has produced the first anthropological study of daily life in the Soviet forced labor camps as experienced by Ukrainian women prisoners. Based on the written memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories of over 150 survivors, this book fills a lacuna in the scholarship regarding Ukrainian experience. It details the women's resistance to the brutality of camp conditions not only through the preservation of customs and traditions from everyday home life, but also through the frequent elision of regional and confessional differences. Following on from the groundbreaking work of Anne Applebaum's Gulag: A History (2003), this book is a must-read for anyone interested in gendered strategies of survival, accommodation, and resistance to the dehumanizing effects of the Gulag"-- Provided by publisher.
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