Gulag Voices: Oral Histories of Soviet Incarceration and Exile

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Series Editors’ Foreword......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
List of Maps and Illustrations......Page 14
Note on Transliteration......Page 16
Maps......Page 17
Introduction......Page 22
Part One: Forced Laborers in the Perm Region......Page 36
CHAPTER 1 A Life in the Forest: Sira Stepanovna Balashina......Page 38
CHAPTER 2 Soviet but German: Robert Avgustovich Ianke......Page 50
CHAPTER 3 Under Two Dictators: Abliaziz Umerovich Ramazanov......Page 68
Part Two: Exiled and Arrested......Page 88
CHAPTER 4 A Mother in Exile: Larisa Mikhailovna Lappo-Danilevskaia......Page 90
CHAPTER 5 Surrounded by Death: Giuli Fedorovna Tsivirko......Page 108
CHAPTER 6 It Wasn’t Life: Nina Ivanovna Rodina......Page 120
Part Three: Children of Enemies......Page 136
CHAPTER 7 Three Death Certificates but No Grave: Boris Israelovich/Srul’evich Faifman......Page 138
CHAPTER 8 Enumerated Units: Giuzel Gumerovna Ibragimova......Page 154
Part Four: Children of Enemies and Then Arrested......Page 170
CHAPTER 9 From Privilege to Exile: Valeriia Mikhailovna Gerlin......Page 172
CHAPTER 10 Bridging Separate Worlds: Feliks Arkadievich Serebrov......Page 190
Part Five: Documents: Survivor Accounts and Letters......Page 212
CHAPTER 11 I So Desired Death: Czesława Greczyn......Page 214
CHAPTER 12 Fragments: Anna Cieślikowska......Page 222
CHAPTER 13 Disgusting and Hopeless: Maria Norciszek......Page 228
CHAPTER 14 We Will Surely Die: Irena Grześkowiak......Page 232
CHAPTER 15 Why Did He Ruin Our Happiness? Franciszka Dul......Page 236
CHAPTER 16 Fare Thee Well: Valentin Tikhonovich Muravskii and Rozalia Iosifovna Muravskaia......Page 240
Notes......Page 244
Glossary......Page 262
Measurement Conversions......Page 266
Note on Contributors......Page 268
Index......Page 270