Gulag Boss A Soviet Memoir

Name: Gulag Boss A Soviet Memoir
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ISBN: 9780199934867

ISBN-10: 019993486X

ISBN-13: 9780199934867

Edition: 2012

Authors: Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky, Deborah Kaple

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The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world's eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag. But not until now has there been a memoir of life inside the camps written from the perspective of an actual employee of the Secret police.In this riveting memoir, superbly translated by Deborah Kaple, Fyodor Mochulsky describes being sent to work as a boss at the forced labor camp of Pechorlag in the frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle. Only twenty-two years old, he had but a vague idea of the true nature of the Gulag. What he discovered was a world of unimaginable suffering and death, a world where men were starved, beaten, worked to death,…

Book details

List price: $35.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/12/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.39" wide x 8.11" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Fyodor Mochulsky (1918-1999) was a foreman and boss at Pechorlag GULAG NKVD from 1940-1946. Deborah Kaple is Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University. She is the author of Dream of a Red Factory: The Legacy of High Stalinism in China (OUP, 1994).



Introduction



Preface




Gulag from the Outside



The NKVD Villain or Protector?



First Acquaintance with GULAG NKVD Meeting at the Central Committee of the CPSU



Meeting in the Cadres Department of GULAG NKVD



Forty-five Days to Pechorlag



Gulag from the Inside



At the Camp Administration



Unit Foreman, First Contingent of Prisoners Soviet Volunteer Ski Troops from the Finnish War



The Unit Bosses



A Change in Leadership at Pechorlag



Transferred to the 93rd Unit Labor Force: Hardened Criminals



Attempted Prisoner Revolt in the 93rd Unit



Boss and Foreman at the 95th Unit Labor Force: Political Prisoners



Threat of Arrest



The War



Illness



Recovery and Return to Work in the Southern Part of the Camp



Boss of a Militarized Section Labor Force: Captured German Prisoners of War



Boss of a Railway Division Labor Force: Professional Railwaymen



The "Liberated" Secretary of the Communist Youth Organization



Fascist Military Landing Force



Deputy Boss in the Political Department for Komsomol Work at the NKVD's Road-Building Camp No. 3



Interesting Asides



Some Railroad Recollections



Peschanka, a Village of Dekulakized People on the River Pechora



The Countryside of Komi on the River Usa



Women at Pechorlag



A Fellow Traveler from Abez to Pechora



Final Words



The End of My Story



The Real Essence of the Gulag


Afterword The Nature of Memoir



Pretexts for Arrest under Lenin and Stalin



Article 58 of the RSFSR Criminal Code



Glossary


Acknowledgments


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index