Gulag boss : a Soviet memoir

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Gulag boss : a Soviet memoir

Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky ; translated and edited by Deborah Kaple

Oxford University Press, 2011

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Bibliography: p. [219]-225

Includes index

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内容説明

The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world's eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag. But not until now has there been a memoir of life inside the camps written from the perspective of an actual employee of the Secret police. In this riveting memoir, superbly translated by Deborah Kaple, Fyodor Mochulsky describes being sent to work as a boss at the forced labor camp of Pechorlag in the frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle. Only twenty-two years old, he had but a vague idea of the true nature of the Gulag. What he discovered was a world of unimaginable suffering and death, a world where men were starved, beaten, worked to death, or simply executed. Mochulsky details the horrific conditions in the camps and the challenges facing all those involved, from prisoners to guards. He depicts the power struggles within the camps between the secret police and the communist party, between the political prisoners (most of whom had been arrested for the generic crime of "counter-revolutionary activities") and the criminal convicts. And because Mochulsky writes of what he witnessed with the detachment of the engineer that he was, readers can easily understand how a system that destroyed millions of lives could be run by ordinary Soviet citizens who believed they were advancing the cause of socialism. Mochulsky remained a communist party member his entire life-he would later become a diplomat-but was deeply troubled by the gap between socialist theory and the Soviet reality of slave labor and mass murder. This unprecedented memoir takes readers into that reality and sheds new light on one of the most harrowing tragedies of the 20th century.

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Introduction by Deborah Kaple Preface by Fyodor Mochulsky Part 1: Gulag from the Outside Chapter 1. The NKVD: Villain or Protector? Chapter 2. First Acquaintance with Gulag NKVD: Meeting at the Central Committee of the CPSU Chapter 3. Meeting in the Cadres Department of Gulag NKVD Chapter 4. 45 Days to Pechorlag Part 2: Gulag from the Inside Chapter 5. At the Construction Administration Chapter 6. Unit Foreman. First Contingent of Prisoners: Soviet Volunteer Ski Troops in the Finnish War Chapter 7. The Unit Bosses Chapter 8. A Change in Leadership at Pechorlag Chapter 9. Transferred to the 93rd Unit. Labor Force: Hardened Criminals Chapter 10. Attempted Prisoner Revolt in the 93rd Unit Chapter 11. Boss and Foreman at the 93rd Unit. Labor Force: Political Prisoners Chapter. 12. Threat of Arrest Chapter 13. The War Chapter 14. Illness Chapter 15. Recovery and Return to Work in the Southern Part of the Camp Chapter 16. Boss of a Militarized Section. Labor Force: Captured German Prisoners of War Chapter 17. Boss of a Railway Division. Labor Force: Professional Railwaymen Chapter 18. The

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