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Author Kis, Oksana

Title Survival as victory. Ukrainian women in the Gulag / oksana Kis ; Lidia Wolanskyj
Published Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (652 pages)
Series Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies
Harvard series in Ukrainian studies.
Contents Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- A NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION, NAMES, AND CERTAIN TERMS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. THE DAILY LIFE OF WOMEN IN THE GULAG IN RESEARCH AND PERSONAL MEMOIRS -- CHAPTER 2. LIVING CONDITIONS IN PRISONS AND CAMPS IN THE 1940S AND 1950S -- CHAPTER 3. NATIONAL IDENTITY AND CHRISTIAN FAITH DURING IMPRISONMENT -- CHAPTER 4. CREATIVITY AND FREE TIME -- CHAPTER 5. HUMANITY AND FEMININITY IN CAPTIVITY -- CHAPTER 6. BODY, SEXUALITY, AND LOVE -- CHAPTER 7. MOTHERHOOD BEHIND BARS: A CURSED BLESSING -- CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDICES -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary Of the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian women were sentenced to the Gulag in the 1940s and 1950s, only half survived. In Survival as Victory, Oksana Kis has produced the first anthropological study of daily life in the Soviet forced labor camps as experienced by Ukrainian women prisoners.0Based on the written memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories of over 150 survivors, this book fills a lacuna in the scholarship regarding Ukrainian experience. Kis details the women's resistance to the brutality of camp conditions not only through the preservation of customs and traditions from everyday home life, but also through the frequent elision of regional and confessional differences. Following the groundbreaking work of Anne Applebaum's Gulag: A History (2003), this book is a must-read for anyone interested in gendered strategies of survival, accommodation, and resistance to the dehumanizing effects of the Gulag
Notes Print version record
Subject GULag NKVD.
SUBJECT GULag NKVD fast
Subject Women internment camp inmates -- Soviet Union
Women prisoners -- Soviet Union
Prisoners -- Soviet Union
Women, Ukrainian -- Soviet Union
Women internment camp inmates -- Ukraine
Women prisoners -- Ukraine
Prisoners -- Ukraine
Internment camps -- Soviet Union
Prisons -- Soviet Union
Women internment camp inmates.
HISTORY -- Women.
Internment camps
Prisoners
Prisons
Women internment camp inmates
Women prisoners
Women, Ukrainian
SUBJECT Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125814
Subject Soviet Union
Ukraine
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Wolanskyj, Lidia
ISBN 9780674258341
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