| Description |
1 online resource (xxxvii, 229 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-225) and index. |
| 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 -- part 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 -- part 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 -- part 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Mochulsky, Fyodor Vasilevich, 1919-1999.
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Soviet Union. Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
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Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitelʹno-trudovykh lagereĭ OGPU -- History.
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Prisons -- Soviet Union -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
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Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953 -- Biography.
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Internment camps -- Russia (Federation) -- Pechora River Region -- History -- 20th century.
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Political prisoners -- Russia (Federation) -- Pechora River Region -- History -- 20th century.
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Political prisoners -- Russia (Federation) -- Pechora River Region -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Forced labor -- Russia (Federation) -- Pechora River Region -- History -- 20th century.
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Pechora River Region (Russia) -- History -- 20th century.
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Social sciences.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
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| Added Author |
Kaple, Deborah A.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mochulsky, Fyodor Vasilevich, 1919-1999. Gulag boss. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010 9780199742660 (DLC) 2010007440 (OCoLC)551196878 |
| Standard No. |
9786612768842 |
| ISBN |
9780199753284 (electronic bk.) |
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0199753288 (electronic bk.) |
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