Title Gulag boss : a Soviet memoir / by Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky ; translated and edited by Deborah Kaple

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxxvii, 229 pages) Contents pt. 1. Gulag from the outside -- The NKVD : villain or protector? -- First acquaintance with Gulag NKVD : meeting at the Central Committee of the CPSU -- Meeting in the Cadres Department of Gulag NKVD -- 45 Days to Pechorlag -- pt. 2. Gulag from the inside -- At the Construction Administration -- Unit foreman, first contingent of prisoners : Soviet volunteer ski troops in the Finnish War -- The unit bosses -- A change in leadership at Pechorlag -- Transferred to the 93rd Unit, labor force : hardened criminals -- Attempted prisoner revolt in the 93rd Unit -- Boss and foreman at the 93rd Unit, labor force : political prisoners -- Threat of arrest -- The war -- Illness -- Recovery and return to work in the southern part of the camp -- Boss of a militarized section, labor force : captured German prisoners of war -- Boss of a railway division, labor force : professional railwaymen -- The "liberated" secretary of the Communist Youth Organization -- Fascist military landing force -- Deputy boss in the Political Department for Komsomol work at the NKVD's Road Building Camp No. 3 -- pt. 3. Interesting asides -- Some railroad recollections -- Peschanka, a village of de-kulakized people on the River Pechora -- The countryside of Komi on the River Usa -- Women at Pechorlag -- A fellow traveler from Abez to Pechora -- pt. 4. Final words -- The end of my story -- The real essence of the Gulag -- Afterword: The nature of memoir -- Appendix 1: Pretexts for arrest during the Stalin period -- Appendix 2: Article 58 of the RSFSR Criminal Code -- Appendix 3: Glossary Summary The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world's eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag. But not until now has there been a memoir of life inside the camps written from the perspective of an actual employee of the Secret police. In this riveting memoir, superbly translated by Deborah Kaple, Fyodor Mochulsky describes being sent to work as a boss at the forced labor camp of Pechorlag in the frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle. Only twenty-two years old, he had but a vague idea of the true nature of the Gulag. What he discovered was a Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-225) and index Notes Print version record Subject Mochulsky, Fyodor Vasilevich, 1919-1999. SUBJECT Mochulsky, Fyodor Vasilevich, 1919-1999 fast Mochulsky, Fyodor V. 1918-1999 gnd Subject Soviet Union. Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del -- Officials and employees -- Biography Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitelʹno-trudovykh lagereĭ OGPU -- History SUBJECT Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitelʹno-trudovykh lagereĭ OGPU fast Soviet Union. Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del fast Internierungslager Évaux-les-Bains gnd Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava gnd Subject Prisons -- Soviet Union -- Officials and employees -- Biography Internment camps -- Russia (Federation) -- Pechora River Region -- History -- 20th century Political prisoners -- Russia (Federation) -- Pechora River Region -- History -- 20th century Political prisoners -- Russia (Federation) -- Pechora River Region -- Social conditions -- 20th century Forced labor -- Russia (Federation) -- Pechora River Region -- History -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology. Internment camps Employees Forced labor Political prisoners Prisons -- Officials and employees Lagerkommandant Arbeitslager. Arbetsläger -- historia -- Sovjetunionen -- 1900-talet. Tvångsarbete -- historia -- Sovjetunionen -- 1900-talet. SUBJECT Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953 -- Biography Pechora River Region (Russia) -- History -- 20th century Subject Russia (Federation) -- Pechora River Region Soviet Union Sowjetunion. Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works) Autobiographies Biographies History Autobiographies. Autobiographies. Form Electronic book Author Kaple, Deborah A. ISBN 9780199753284 0199753288 9780199742660 0199742669

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