Author: Tim RiversPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The American Gulag Chronicles
Author: Tim RiversLetters from the American Gulag
Author: John CleanPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781456353520
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This is the story of Erika, a 23 year old African American mother of 3 year old twins who was accosted at a night club and thrown to the ground. In defending herself, she cut two of her attackers. The attackers lied to the police and Erika was charged with attempted murder, aggravated mayhem, and assault. This book is the love letters between Erika and her fiance, through an unbelievable ordeal devoid of humanity and reeking of racial prejudice, who desperately tried to hold onto their love and commitment to themselves and to the children. Sometimes raw but always honest, this narrative highlights the tragedy of our modern day judicial system that has gone beyond convicting criminals of any and all crimes and instead condemns them with no hope of redemption. How many watchers do we need to keep us safe? The prison population has grown over 400 percent since 1980, the general population just 20 percent. This is a story of love, lost in that system.
Gulag Letters
Author: Arsenii FormakovPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300228198
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A poignant collection of letters written by the Latvian poet, novelist, and newspaper editor Arsenii Formakov while interned in Soviet labor camps Emily Johnson has translated and edited a fascinating collection of letters written by Arsenii Formakov, a Latvian Russian poet, novelist, and journalist, during two terms in Soviet labor camps, 1940 to 1947 in Kraslag and 1949 to 1955 in Kamyshlag and Ozerlag. This correspondence, which Formakov mailed home to his family in Riga, provides readers with a firsthand account of the workings of the Soviet penal system and testifies to the hardships of daily life for Latvian prisoners in the Gulag.
Remember Us as We Remember You
Author: Ruth Derksen SiemensPublisher:
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Category : Forced labor
Languages : en
Pages : 7
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Remember Us
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Camps de concentration - U.R.S.S - Histoire
Languages : en
Pages :
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American Gulag
Author: Mark DowPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520239423
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The freelance writer and poet takes an unprecedented look inside the secret and repressive world of U.S. immigration prisons.
My Father's Letters
Author: MemorialPublisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 1783785306
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A profoundly moving and historical record—letters sent by sixteen fathers imprisoned in the Gulag camps to their children during the 1930s–1950s. “They will live as human beings and die as human beings; and in this alone lies man’s eternal and bitter victory over all the grandiose and inhuman forces that ever have been or will be.” —Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate Between the 1930s and 1950s, millions of people were sent to the Gulag in the Soviet Union. My Father’s Letters tells the stories of sixteen men—mostly members of the intelligentsia, and loyal Soviet subjects—who were imprisoned in the Gulag camps, through the letters they sent back to their wives and children. Here are letters illustrated by fathers keen to educate their children in science and natural history; the tragic missives of a former military man convinced that the terrible mistake of his arrest will be rectified; the “letter” stitched on a bedsheet with a fishbone and smuggled out of a maximum security camp. My Father’s Letters is an immediate source of life in prison during Stalin’s Great Terror. Almost none of the men writing these letters survived. “My Father’s Letters is well presented and deeply moving. The translation is fluent and all the necessary background information is clearly provided. Some passages conjure up the life of an individual family—and of an entire culture—with heart-breaking vividness.” —Robert Chandler “Astoundingly, these stories are not miserable. Yes, the men mention their inadequate shelter, clothing and food, but the overwhelming impact is the expression of their love for their families . . . My Father’s Letters is beautifully produced.” —Vin Arthey, Scotsman
An American Gulag
Author: Andy CohenPublisher:
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Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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American Gulag
Author: Mark DowPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520239425
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The freelance writer and poet takes an unprecedented look inside the secret and repressive world of U.S. immigration prisons.
Letters from the Gulag
Author: Oksana AsherPublisher:
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Category : Philologists
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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