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Author:

Gregory, Paul R., author.

Title:

Women of the Gulag / Paul R. Gregory.

Publisher:

Hoover Institution Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xiii, 246 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women political prisoners--Soviet Union--Biography.
GULag NKVD.
Political persecution--Soviet Union.
Concentration camps--Soviet Union.
Prisons--Soviet Union.
Forced labor--Soviet Union.
Soviet Union--History--1925-1953.
Straflager.
Weibliche politische Gefangene.
Stalinismus.
Sowjetunion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Terror's human face -- Stalin : struggles and successes -- Agnessa : elite NKVD wife -- Maria : portrait of the new Soviet family -- Evgenia : luxury with a beast -- Adile : princess bride of Abkhazia -- Fekla : child of the kulaks -- Stalin : the storm descends -- Agnessa : crashing a funeral -- Stalin : launching the great terror -- Agnessa : the purge spreads far and wide -- Maria : a narrow escape -- Evgenia : socialist realist -- Adile : the master will not abandon us -- Fekla : becoming a Bolshevik -- Stalin : the master needs a scapegoat -- Agnessa : new year's eve with the Master -- Maria : wife of a traitor to the motherland -- Evgenia : losing everything -- Adile : return and arrest -- Fekla : face of the future -- Aftermath.

Series:

Hoover Institution Press Publication ; no. 631

ISBN:

0817915745 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780817915742 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)818985575

LCCN:

2012045817

Locations:

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)