Children of the Gulag

Name: Children of the Gulag
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ISBN: 9780300122930

ISBN-10: 0300122934

ISBN-13: 9780300122930

Edition: 2010

Authors: Semyon Samuilovich Vilensky, Cathy A. Frierson

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This groundbreaking book offers a comprehensive documentary history of children whose parents were identified as enemies of the Soviet regime from its inception through Joseph Stalin's death. When parents were arrested, executed, or sent to the Gulag, their children also suffered. Millions of children, labeled "socially dangerous," lost parents, homes, and siblings. Co-edited by Cathy A. Frierson, a senior American scholar, and Semyon S. Vilensky, Gulag survivor and compiler of the Russian documents, the book offers documentary and personal perspectives. The editors present top-secret documents in translation from the Russian state archives, memoirs, and interviews with child survivors. The…

Book details

List price: $77.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 2/23/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.31" tall
Weight: 1.804
Language: English



Note on Documents


List of Documents


List of Maps and Illustrations


List of Tables


Acknowledgments


List of Acronyms and Abbreviations


Introduction



Visionary Grown-ups Endanger Children: Revolution, Civil War, and Bolshevik Ruling Structures, 1917-1928



Child Victims of Stalin's War Against the Peasantry



Child Victims of Bolshevik Categories, 1934-1938



Children of Deported Peoples



Children of Enemies of the People During the Great Patriotic War



Reunions, Blighted Hopes, and Arrests: Children's Lives After the War, 1946-1953



Lessons and Legacies for Child Survivors


Epilogue


Appendix: List of Interviews


Chronology


Notes


Index