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Book Escape from Gulag Taria

Download or read book Escape from Gulag Taria written by Joseph Rosenberger and published by Dell. This book was released on 1986 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Long Walk

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  • Author : Slavomir Rawicz
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9781558216846
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book The Long Walk written by Slavomir Rawicz and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and was sent to the Siberian Gulag. "The Long Walk" is the harrowing true tale of how he and six comrades escaped and made their way, on foot, thousands of miles south to British India.

Book Escape on the Underground Railroad

Download or read book Escape on the Underground Railroad written by David Watson and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Serial Vigilantes of Paperback Fiction

Download or read book Serial Vigilantes of Paperback Fiction written by Bradley Mengel and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rough justice has often been served in the pages of serial novels, notably beginning with Don Pendleton's The Executioner in 1969. This is the first overview of the serial vigilante genre, which featured such hard-boiled protagonists as Nick Carter, Mark Stone, Jake Brand and Able Team among the 130 series that followed Pendleton's novel. Serial vigilantes repeatedly take the law into their own hands, establishing and imposing their own moral standards, usually by force. The book examines the connections between the serial vigilante and the pulp hero that preceded him and how the serial vigilante has influenced a variety of tough guys, private eyes, spies and cops in different media. A complete bibliography for each series is featured.

Book The Whole Story

Download or read book The Whole Story written by John E. Simkin and published by K. G. Saur. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the only comprehensive guide to sequels in English, with over 84,000 works by 12,500 authors in 17,000 sequences.

Book Return from the Archipelago

Download or read book Return from the Archipelago written by Leona Toker and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive historical survey and critical analysis of the vast body of narrative literature about the Soviet gulag. Leona Toker organizes and characterizes both fictional narratives and survivors' memoirs as she explores the changing hallmarks of the genre from the 1920s through the Gorbachev era. Toker reflects on the writings and testimonies that shed light on the veiled aspects of totalitarianism, dehumanization, and atrocity. Identifying key themes that recur in the narratives -- arrest, the stages of trial, imprisonment, labor camps, exile, escapes, special punishment, the role of chance, and deprivation -- Toker discusses the historical, political, and social contexts of these accounts and the ethical and aesthetic imperative they fulfill. Her readings provide extraordinary insight into prisoners' experiences of the Soviet penal system. Special attention is devoted to the writings of Varlam Shalamov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, but many works that are not well known in the West, especially those by women, are addressed. Consideration is also given to events that recently brought many memoirs to light years after they were written.

Book As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me

Download or read book As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me written by Josef M. Bauer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1944, German paratrooper Clemens Forell was captured by the Soviets and sentenced to twenty-five years of labor in a Siberian lead mine. In the Gulags, this was virtually a death sentence. Driven to desperation by the brutality of the prison camp, he staged a daring escape. For the next three years, Forell traveled 8,000 miles in barren, frozen wilderness, haunted by blizzards, wolves, criminals, the KGB, and the fear of recapture and retribution. Only a remarkable will to survive, and a bit of luck, allowed him to reach the safety of the Persian border. The resulting story is a rare document of the horrors faced by POWs in the Soviet Union, and a testament to the human spirit.

Book The Cobra Chase

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  • Author : Joseph Rosenberger
  • Publisher : Dell
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN : 9780440113089
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book The Cobra Chase written by Joseph Rosenberger and published by Dell. This book was released on 1986 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book I Speak for the Silent Prisoners of the Soviets

Download or read book I Speak for the Silent Prisoners of the Soviets written by Vladimir Vi︠a︡cheslavovich Chernavin and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I tell my own story because I believe that only in this way can I discharge the moral obligation which a kindly Fate imposed upon me in helping me to escape from the Soviet Terror the duty to speak for those whose voices cannot be heard.In silence they are sent away as convicts to the concentration camps; in silence they suffer torture and go to meet their death from Soviet bullets.Nothing is invented in this book and I stand back of every statement I have made. In a few instances to protect others I have been compelled to conceal the identity of certain people, but I have indicated that fact in each specific case. All those whom I describe are real persons and everything is true to the minutest detail.This is a narrative of what befell a Russian scientist under the Soviet regime. More than that, it is the story of many, if not most, people of education in the U.S.S.R. today.As you read, please remember that I speak of myself only because it enables me to tell the story of others. Remember, also, that, in the Soviet Union, innocent people are still being tried for "wrecking" and that intelligent men are still being forced by torture to "confess" to crimes which they never committed.Remember, too, that thousands of Russian men and women of education are still languishing in the filthy cells of the GPU prisons and in the cold barracks of the concentration camps, poorly clad and starving, breaking with exhaustion under the hardships of inhuman slavery."Vladimir V. TchernavinVladimir Vyacheslavovich Tchernavin (alternative transliteration: Chernavin) (1887-1949) was a Russian-born ichthyologist who became famous as one of the first and few prisoners of the Soviet Gulag system who managed to escape abroad.

Book The Atlantean Horror

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  • Author : Joseph R. Rosenberger
  • Publisher : Pinnacle Books
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN : 9780523420929
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book The Atlantean Horror written by Joseph R. Rosenberger and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gulag Survivor

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  • Author : Nanci Adler
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-09-04
  • ISBN : 1351481711
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book The Gulag Survivor written by Nanci Adler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even before its dissolution in 1991, the Soviet Union was engaged in an ambivalent struggle to come to terms with its violent and repressive history. Following the death of Stalin in 1953, entrenched officials attempted to distance themselves from the late dictator without questioning the underlying legitimacy of the Soviet system. At the same time, the Gulag victims to society opened questions about the nature, reality, and mentality of the system that remain contentious to this day.The Gulag Survivor is the first book to examine at length and in-depth the post-camp experience of Stalin's victims and their fate in post-Soviet Russia. As such, it is an essential companion to the classic work of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Based on extensive interviews, memoirs, official records, and recently opened archives, The Gulag Survivor describes what survivors experienced when they returned to society, how officials helped or hindered them, and how issues surrounding the existence of the returnees evolved from the fifties up to the present.Adler establishes the social and historical context of the first wave of returnees who were ""liberated"" into exile in Stalin's time. She reviews diverse aspects of return including camp culture, family reunion, and the psychological consequences of the Gulag. Adler then focuses on the enduring belief in the Communist Party among some survivors and the association between returnees and the growing dissident movement. She concludes by examining how issues surrounding the survivors reemerged in the eighties and nineties and the impact they had on the failing Soviet system. Written and researched while Russian archives were most available and while there were still survivors to tell their stories, The Gulag Survivor is a groundbreaking and essential work in modern Russian history. It will be read by historians, political scientists, Slavic scholars, and sociologists.

Book The Gulag Archipelago  1918 1956

Download or read book The Gulag Archipelago 1918 1956 written by Александр Исаевич Солженицын and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the personal experiences of the author and 227 other political prisoners of the Soviet Union.

Book The Greenland Mystery

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  • Author : Joseph R. Rosenberger
  • Publisher : Dell Publishing Company
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN : 9780440200499
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book The Greenland Mystery written by Joseph R. Rosenberger and published by Dell Publishing Company. This book was released on 1988 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russian commandos raid a camp of American scientists who have discovered an alien city beneath the polar ice-cap. Death Merchant Richard Carnellion and an international gang of mercenaries prepare to show the Commies that--this time--hell really has frozen over!

Book I Speak for the Silent Prisoners of the Soviets

Download or read book I Speak for the Silent Prisoners of the Soviets written by Vladimir V. Tchernavin and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Open at once! This is the GPU." On a cold night in 1930, Vladimir Tchernavin's home was raided by the GPU, the Soviet secret police, who ransacked his home looking for proof of "wrecking" activity. This was the beginning of two years of persecution, punishment and imprisonment for Tchernavin and his family. Although a penniless scientist who was aiding the U.S.S.R. with research in fishing he was persecuted by the state because his family were Russian nobility, which to the Soviet Government meant that he was a class enemy. Tchernavin's fascinating story takes the reader into the heart of the Soviet Union of the 1930s as it was desperately trying to industrialise, no matter what the cost was in human lives. Accused of counter-revolutionary activities and not assisting in the industrial drive that Stalin had implemented he was imprisoned in 1931 and sentenced to five years in the Gulags. Tchernavin's account vividly depicts the persecution that he and his fellow prisoners suffered at the hands of the U.S.S.R., how many buckled under the torturous conditions, confessing to crimes they had never committed and even indicting others in the process. Along with his wife and son Tchernavin was one of the lucky ones who was able to escape across the border to Finland and later live in England. "Professor Tchernavin has an important story to tell and tells it well and convincingly." William Henry Chamberlain, Pacific Affairs "The story reveals the life and organization of the prisons, the treatment meted out to those dealing with the Communists." Kirkus Reviews Vladimir Tchernavin was a Russian scientist, who specialized in studying fish. He was one of the first and very few prisoners of the Gulag system to escape. His work I Speak for the Silent Prisoners of the Soviets was first published in 1934 and he died in 1949. This work was translated by Nicholas Oushakoff who had left the U.S.S.R. in the 1920s to settle in Massachusetts. He died in 1973.

Book The Silicon Valley Connection

Download or read book The Silicon Valley Connection written by Joseph R. Rosenberger and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A specially trained group of KGB agents has managed to pull off a daring midday kidnapping of ... Dr. Burl Martin from his laboratory in California's famed Silicon Valley. Aided by a slick and ruthless motorcycle gang, Satan's Gentlemen, who 'make the Hell's Angels look like Boy Scouts,' the KGB plans to bring Martin to a Soviet submarine waiting off the Pacific coast. The CIA is short on time, and even shorter on clues. Only Richard Camellion stands to bring the scientist back alive. But even the Death Merchant will have to use more than just his great cunning and awesome firepower to win at this deadly game of cat and mouse."--Back cover.

Book From Gulag to Freedom

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  • Author : Sigrid Weidenweber
  • Publisher : Center for Volga German Studies
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9781934961032
  • Pages : 425 pages

Download or read book From Gulag to Freedom written by Sigrid Weidenweber and published by Center for Volga German Studies. This book was released on 2009 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel, drawn on historical material, about growing up in a Volga German colony and surviving the hardships of Soviet collectivization, deportation and imprisonment in a Siberian gulag. Katharina, the heroine, with the help of a native Komi tribesman, escapes from the gulag and makes her way to the San Joaquin Valley of Central California where she becomes part of the Volga German community that had been established there decades earlier.

Book The Economics of Forced Labor

Download or read book The Economics of Forced Labor written by Paul R. Gregory and published by Hoover Institution Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until now, there has been little scholarly analysis of the Soviet Gulag as an economic, social, and political institution, primarily owing to a lack of data. This collection presents the results of years of research by Western and Russian scholars. The authors provide both broad overviews and specific case studies.