Gulag letters

Author(s)

• Formakov, Arseniĭ
• Johnson, Emily D.

Bibliographic Information

Gulag letters

Arsenii Formakov ; edited, translated, and with an introduction by Emily D. Johnson

（The Yale-Hoover series on authoritarian regimes）

Yale University Press, c2017

• : hard

Note

"Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, California"--T.p.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A poignant collection of letters written by the Latvian poet, novelist, and newspaper editor Arsenii Formakov while interned in Soviet labor camps Emily Johnson has translated and edited a fascinating collection of letters written by Arsenii Formakov, a Latvian Russian poet, novelist, and journalist, during two terms in Soviet labor camps, 1940 to 1947 in Kraslag and 1949 to 1955 in Kamyshlag and Ozerlag. This correspondence, which Formakov mailed home to his family in Riga, provides readers with a firsthand account of the workings of the Soviet penal system and testifies to the hardships of daily life for Latvian prisoners in the Gulag.

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• NCID: BB27501890
• ISBN:
  • 9780300209310
• LCCN: 2016953815
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: rus
• Place of Publication: New Haven
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 294 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PG3476.F646
  • DC23 : 891.71/4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Formakov, Arseniĭ -- Correspondence
  • LCSH : Political prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Correspondence
  • LCSH : Poets, Latvian -- Correspondence
  • LCSH : Labor camps -- Soviet Union
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB23109699