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1 online resource (xvi, 267 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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polychrome |
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Annals of Communism
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Annals of Communism.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: I survived. I speak. -- "If you are interested in this kind of detail, I have remembered for all these years the smell of the perfume she was wearing and the color of her blouse" / Aleksandr Yudelevich Zakgeim -- "And we began to live there in twenty-six square meters; there were thirteen of us" / Inna Aronovna Shikheeva-Gaister -- "I, you understand, for my generation ... we have the psychology of persons devoted to society. We can't separate ourselves from society" / Andrei Ivanovich Vorobyov -- "I would ride as far as Karabas Station, but then, I don't recall, I had to go about fifty-sixty kilometers on foot" / Valentin Tikhonovich Muravsky -- "Silence was salvation. That's what I knew" / Irina Andreevna Dubrovina -- "I was so overjoyed that I had found you" / Vera Mikhailovna Kostina/Vera Yulyanovna Skiba -- "The feeling of loneliness has stalked me always" / Tamara Nikolaevna Morozova -- "I had a completely non-Soviet worldview" / Aleksandr Nikolaevich Kozyrev -- "I have dreamed my entire life, for me this would be a great joy to find my relatives" / Maya Rudolfovna Levitina -- "Well, probably, essentially, they destroyed my life, of course" / Vladimir Valerianovich Timofeev -- Appendix I: Amendments to Criminal Code (Decree of December 1, 1934) -- Appendix II: Excerpt from NKVD Operational Order 00447 -- Appendix III: Operational Order No. 00486 -- Chronology. |
| Summary |
Roughly ten million children were victims of political repression in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist era, the sons and daughters of peasants, workers, scientists, physicians, and political leaders considered by the regime to be dangerous to the political order. Ten grown victims, who as children suffered banishment, starvation, disease, anti-Semitism, and trauma resulting from their parents' condemnation and arrest, now freely share their stories. The result is a powerful and moving oral history of life in the U.S.S.R. under the despotic reign of Joseph Stalin. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.
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Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953. |
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World War (1939-1945) |
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Political prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Interviews.
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Political prisoners. |
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Soviet Union. |
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Interviews.
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Political prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
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Biographies.
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Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953.
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1936-1953 |
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Political purges -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Political purges. |
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History. |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union.
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Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- 1917-1945.
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Social conditions. |
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1917-1945 |
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Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- 1945-1991.
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1945-1991 |
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Communism -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union.
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Communism -- Social aspects. |
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Communism. |
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1917-1991 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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Interviews.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Frierson, Cathy A. Silence was salvation 9780300179453 (DLC) 2014026669 (OCoLC)877369663 |
| ISBN |
9780300210736 (electronic book) |
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0300210736 (electronic book) |
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9780300179453 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0300179456 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
| Report No. |
JSTOR purchased |
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