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Title: |
Surviving the Gulag |
| Sub-title: |
A German Woman’s Memoir |
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| By (author): |
Ilse Johansen Edited by: Heather Marshall |
| ISBN10-13: |
1772120383 : 9781772120387 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
228x152x18mm |
| Pages: |
296 |
| Weight: |
.436 Kg. |
| Published: |
University of Alberta Press - October 2016 |
| List Price: |
29.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Subjects: |
Biography: general : Biography: historical, political & military : Poetry : The Cold War |
| â The terrified yell of my comrades makes me stop. I drop the potatoes into the grass and turn around. He has pulled out the pistol and is taking aim. Slowly I come back.â Surviving the Gulag is the first-person account of a resourceful woman who survived five grueling years in Russian prison camps: starved, traumatized, and worked nearly to death. A story like Ilse Johansenâ s is rarely toldâ of a woman caught in the web of fascism and communism at the end of the Second World War and beginning of the Cold War. The candid story of her time as a prisoner, written soon after her release, provides startling insight into the ordeal of a German female prisoner under Soviet rule. Readers of memoir and history, and students of feminism and war studies, will learn more about womenâ s experience of the Soviet gulag through the eyes of Ilse Johansen. Introduction by Michael Seadle. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Translator's Preface ix Hans Rudolf Gahle r Acknowledgements xi Karin and Rex Marshall Editor's Introduction xiii Heather Marshall Introduction xxix Michael Seadle Surviving the Gulag 1 Index 239 |
| Reviews: |
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"Surviving the Gulag is an unflinching story of being a German woman in the very places that have been written about by so many men." Lolita Lark, RALPH Magazine
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