Description: Gulag Boss : A Soviet Memoir, Paperback by Mochulsky, Fyodor Vasilevich; Kaple, Deborah (EDT), ISBN 019993486X, ISBN-13 9780199934867, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the worlds 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 world of unimaginable suffering and death, a world where men were starved, beaten, worked to death, or simply executed. Mochulsky details the horrific conditions in the camps and the challenges facing all those involved, from prisoners to guards. He depicts the power struggles
within the camps between the secret police and the communist party, between the political prisoners (most of whom had been arrested for the generic crime of "counter-revolutionary activities") and the criminal convicts. And because Mochulsky writes of what he witnessed with the detachment of the
engineer that he was, readers can easily understand how a system that destroyed millions of lives could be run by ordinary Soviet citizens who believed they were advancing the cause of socialism.
Mochulsky remained a communist party member his entire life--he would later become a diplomat--but was deeply troubled by the gap between socialist theory and the Soviet reality of slave labor and mass murder. This unprecedented memoir takes readers into that reality and sheds new light on one of
the most harrowing tragedies of the 20th century.
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Book Title: Gulag Boss : a Soviet Memoir
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 0.7 in
Topic: Labor & Industrial Relations, Europe / Eastern, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Modern / 20th Century, Penology, Political Freedom, Historical
Publication Year: 2012
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 10.4 Oz
Author: Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky
Item Length: 8.1 in
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
