Gulag Voices: Oral Histories of Soviet Incarceration and Exile

J. Gheith, K. Jolluck

Palgrave Macmillan US, Feb 10, 2011 - Law - 256 pages

In this volume, the powerful voices of Gulag survivors become accessible to English-speaking audiences for the first time through oral histories, rather than written memoirs. It brings together interviews with men and women, members of the working class and intelligentsia, people who live in the major cities and those from the "provinces," and from an array of corrective hard labor camps and prisons across the former Soviet Union. Its aims are threefold: 1) to give a sense of the range of the Gulag experience and its consequences for Russian society; 2) to make the Gulag relevant to English-speaking readers by offering comparisons to historical catastrophes they are likely to know more about, such as the Holocaust; and 3) to discuss issues of oral history and memory in the cultural context of Soviet and post-Soviet society.

About the author

JEHANNE M. GHEITH Associate Professor and Chair of the Slavic and Eurasian Studies Department at Duke University, USA.

KATHERINE R. JOLLUCK Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Stanford University, USA.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Gulag Voices: Oral Histories of Soviet Incarceration and Exile; Palgrave Studies in Oral History
• Authors: J. Gheith, K. Jolluck
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2011
• ISBN: 0230610633, 9780230610637
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: History / Europe / Eastern; History / General; History / Historiography; History / Russia / General; History / Social History; Law / Civil Rights; Law / International; Political Science / Human Rights; Social Science / Criminology