Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag

by Oksana Kis

Of the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian women were sentenced to the Gulag in the 1940s and 1950s, only half survived. In Survival as Victory, Oksana Kis has produced the first anthropological study of daily life in the Soviet forced labor camps as experienced by Ukrainian women prisoners.

Based on the written memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories of over 150 survivors, this book fills a lacuna in the scholarship regarding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674258282
• ISBN13: 9780674258280
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
• Length: 652 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"