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Remembering the Darkness: Women in Soviet Prisons

Remembering the Darkness: Women in Soviet Prisons


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This engrossing collection of prison memoirs by Russian women is the first to portray the direct experiences of the wide range of women who were incarcerated in Soviet prisons and camps. Comprising the stories of women from all classes and backgrounds, this book covers the entire span of the Gulag's existence from the 1920s to the 1980s, including the little-known periods of political repression of the 1960s and 1980s. These memoirs and letters provide a rich portrait of how women led everyday life in prison and in the camps, of the strategies of accommodation and resistance they employed, and the challenges they faced when they reentered Soviet society. Although readers will hear the voices of women who were in excruciating physical and emotional pain, they will also find remarkable testimonies to the agency and resilience of women who struggled against incredible odds. Written by women from all stations in life and from drastically different backgrounds, these stories reconstruct not only the world of the Gulag but also its meaning for society at large. The documents excerpted here point to areas of Soviet history and culture that have yet to be fully investigated as they illuminate women's experiences of friendship, work, hope, inspiration, loss, and terror. All the works selected for the collection are united by their authors' sense of group and individual identity. To varying degrees, all of them associate their experiences with events and people beyond their personal experiences and immediate surroundings, thus expanding the traditional perspective of women's writing. These riveting stories, never before published in English or Russian, will appeal to scholars and students of Soviet history and literature, as well as general readers interested in women's history. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 PART I: Nonconformity, Resistance, and Protest Chapter 3 My Autobiography Chapter 4 Why Weren't You Crying? Chapter 5 Memoirs of Brusilova, by E. Selezneva Chapter 6 From the Protocol of Interrogation Chapter 7 You Would Make a Good Joan of Arc Chapter 8 How I Became an Anarchist Chapter 9 The Prison Transport in Wartime Chapter 10 My Meetings with Anna Petrovna Skripnikova Chapter 11 Perspective Part 12 PART II: Camp As a Way of Life Chapter 13 Episodes from My Life Chapter 14 Life Is Everywhere Chapter 15 From Aelita's Notes Chapter 16 Epiphany in the Taiga Chapter 17 From Letters Chapter 18 Letters Part 19 PART III: Sisters, Moms, and Broads Chapter 20 From Letters Chapter 21 Satyr and Nymphs Chapter 22 The Hold Chapter 23 I Never Saw Him Again Chapter 24 Unedited Life

About the Author :
Veronica Shapovalov is associate professor of Russian at San Diego State University.

Review :
This collection of memoirs and letters from the gulags will prove to be of great interest to scholars working on the Stalin era and for students who are interested in the terror. . . . This is a highly satisfactory book that anyone teaching Soviet history should read. A major contribution to the literature on the Soviet women's history and on the outrages of the Stalin period. The excerpts are eloquent, the writers memorable. Even those well acquainted with the horrors of the Stalin years will find themselves shaken by this array of needless tragedies. The collection is well introduced, meticulously footnoted, and skillfully translated. . . . All the accounts are compelling.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780742511460
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 364
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Weight: 575 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0742511464
  • Publisher Date: 24 Aug 2001
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Women in Soviet Prisons
  • Width: 146 mm


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