Overview

"Caught up in one of the many purges that swept the Soviet Union during the Great Terror, Leonid Petrovich Bolotov (1906-1987) was one of 86 engineers arrested at Leningrad's Red Triangle Rubber Factory and sent to the Gulag as ""enemies of the people."" He would be the only one to survive and return his family, enduring two decades in the infamous Kolyma labor camps. Translated into English and published here for the first time, Bolotov's memoir narrates with growing intensity his arrest, imprisonment and interrogation, his ""confession"" and trial, his exile to hard labor in Arctic Siberia, and his rehabilitation in 1956 following the official end of Stalin's personality cult."

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Author:   Leonid Petrovich Bolotov
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
ISBN:  

9781476682211

ISBN 10:   1476682216
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   30 July 2020
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Translator-Editor's Acknowledgments Translator-Editor's Preface Translator-Editor's Introduction Part I: Defeat of the Working Family 1. My Arrest 2. Shpalernaia Prison 3. My Interrogation 4. Pruss and Aleksandrov 5.The Sailor 6. The Pilot 7. I'm Held in Captivity 8. The Hundredth Prisoner 9. My 60th Day in Prison 10. My Stay in Two Prisons 11. The Night Before the Trial 12. The Trial 13. I Meet My Convicted Friends 14. Second Transit Prison for Men 15. The Train: Leningrad to Vladivostok 16. Vladivostok Transit Camp 17. Behind Barbed Wire 18. Kulu Part II: My Stay and Work in Kolyma 19. From Magadan to the Taiga 20. The New Power 21. Baptism of Fire 22. Panning Season 23. Music While We Worked 24. My Father's Letter 25. My Search for Firewood 26. My Broken Leg 27. My New Friends 28. The Competition 29. World War II in the Gold Mine 30. The Cave-In 31. The Unexpected Meetings 32. Investigator Kulakov 33. The New Accusation 34. Jail 35. Brevda's Story 36. My Last Judgment 37. The Finnish Shingles 38. Glass Factory 39. Young Thieves 40. Katia Maksakov's Story 41. Ivan Zelenin's Story 42. Our Raskolnikov 43. The Blue-Eyed Blonde 44. Bears and Berries 45. Special Camp 5 46. A New Order 47. Freedom with Restrictions 48. Dishwashing 49. The Family Cares 50. Nina's Arrival 51. Nina's Arrest 52. Tomsk's Jail 53. Nina's Release and Meeting with Children 54. The First Thawed Patch 55. In Leningrad 56. Our New Lives Begin Translator-Editor's Afterword Glossary Abbreviations Bibliography Index

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Irina Y. Barclay, professor of Russian and Russian literature at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, has over two decades of college teaching in America and Russia. She is a former Boris Yeltsin Presidential Scholar and, later, active in an organization headed by Mikhail Gorbachev. Dr. Barclay has authored over 50 articles and participated in dozens of conferences around the world.

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