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Author Mochulsky, Fyodor Vasilevich, 1919-1999.

Title Gulag boss : a Soviet memoir / Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky ; translated and edited by Deborah Kaple.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

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 Moore Stacks  DK268.M59 A3 2011    Available  ---
Description xxxvii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-225) and index.
Contents pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. 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 -- pt. 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 -- pt. 4. Final words -- The end of my story -- The real essence of the Gulag -- Afterword: The nature of memoir -- Appendix 1: Pretexts for arrest under Lenin and Stalin period -- Appendix 2: Article 58 of the RSFSR Criminal Code -- Appendix 3: Glossary.
Subject Mochulsky, Fyodor Vasilevich, 1919-1999.
Mochulsky, Fyodor Vasilevich, 1919-1999.
Soviet Union. Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
Soviet Union. Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Prisons -- Officials and employees -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Prisons -- Officials and employees.
Soviet Union.
Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953 -- Biography.
History.
Chronological Term 1925-1953
Subject Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitelʹno-trudovykh lagereĭ OGPU -- History.
Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitelʹno-trudovykh lagereĭ OGPU.
Nazi concentration camps -- Russia (Federation) -- Pechora River -- History -- 20th century.
Internment camps -- Russia (Federation) -- Pechora River -- History -- 20th century.
Nazi concentration camps.
Russia (Federation) -- Pechora River.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Political prisoners -- Russia (Federation) -- Pechora River -- History -- 20th century.
Political prisoners.
Political prisoners -- Russia (Federation) -- Pechora River -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Social conditions.
Forced labor -- Russia (Federation) -- Pechora River -- History -- 20th century.
Forced labor.
Pechora River (Russia) -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Added Author Kaple, Deborah A.
ISBN 9780199742660 alkaline paper
0199742669 alkaline paper