women's voices from the Gulag
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Zgustova, Monika
- Creator
- Jones, Julie > (transl.)
- Publish Year
- 2020
- Shelfmark
- USSR 54 2020
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenkampen, politieke gevangenen, literatuur, USSR, 1900-1949, 20e eeuw
- Description
- This book tells the stories of nine former female survivors of the Gulag camps in the Soviet-era. The collection of interviews with these Russian women not only describes the hardships of the prison camps during Stalin's regime, but also reveals their love for poetry and art and their friendship. The women interviewed are Zayara Vesyolaya, Susanna Pechuro, Ella Markman, Elena Korybut-Daszkiewicz, Valentina Iyevleva, Natalia Gorbanevskaya, Janina Misik, Galya Safonova and Irina Emelyanova.