Women of the Gulag: Portraits of Five Remarkable Lives

by Paul R. Gregory

Book Overview

During the course of three decades, Joseph Stalin's Gulag, a vast network of forced labor camps and settlements, held many millions of prisoners. People in every corner of the Soviet Union lived in daily terror of imprisonment and execution.

In researching the surviving threads of memoirs and oral reminiscences of five women victimized by the Gulag, Paul Gregory has stitched together a collection of stories from the female perspective, a view...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817915745
• ISBN13: 9780817915742
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"