The Gulag Survivor: Beyond the Soviet System
Author:   Nanci Adler
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Edition:   New edition
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9780765805850


Pages:   303
Publication Date:   28 February 2004
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Nanci Adler
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Transaction Publishers
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9780765805850


ISBN 10:   0765805855
Pages:   303
Publication Date:   28 February 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction; 1: Defining the Parameters; 2: The First Return: Between Liberation and Liberalization, 1947-1953; 3: The System’s Adaptation to Repression, 1953-55; 4: The Impact of Repression on Readaptation; 5: The Politics of Readaptation and Resocialization Procedures: Policy and Practice before and after the XX Party Congress; 6: The Effect of Repression and Readaptation on Both the Returnees and the Political System; 7: The Victims Strike Again: The Reemergence of Returnees in the Eighties and Nineties

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This pathbreaking volume reminds us that there were also Gulag survivors, victims of Stalinism. Adler lays out a broad agenda: she endeavors to document Gulag survivors as psychological, sociological, and political problems for the former Soviet Union and Russia today. This thoroughly footnoted work is recommended.... - Choice; Adler makes good use of psychoanalytic theory and survivor literature in her attempt to understand the returnees' experience.... [It] is a notable book on a very important topic. It joins Catherine Merridale's...Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia as a tribute to those who suffered in the Soviet concentration camps. - Lynne Viola, Slavic Review


""This pathbreaking volume reminds us that there were also Gulag survivors, victims of Stalinism. Adler lays out a broad agenda: she endeavors to document Gulag survivors as psychological, sociological, and political problems for the former Soviet Union and Russia today. This thoroughly footnoted work is recommended...."" - Choice; ""Adler makes good use of psychoanalytic theory and survivor literature in her attempt to understand the returnees' experience.... [It] is a notable book on a very important topic. It joins Catherine Merridale's...Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia as a tribute to those who suffered in the Soviet concentration camps."" - Lynne Viola, Slavic Review""


Author Information

Nanci Adler is an associate professor at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the University of Amsterdam. She is a member of the editorial board of the Memory and Narrative series, and the author of Victims of Soviet Terror: The Story of the Memorial Movement as well as numerous scholarly journal articles on the consequences of Stalinism.

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