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Gulag Letters (Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes) by Arsenii Formakov (editor); Emily D. Johnson (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Memoirs and works of fiction that describe the Stalinist Gulag often depict labor camps as entirely cut off from the rest of Soviet society. In fact, however, many prisoners corresponded at least sporadically with relatives either through the official, censored Gulag mail system or by smuggling letters out of camp with free laborers. Examples of such correspondence that survive to the present day represent a powerful, largely unstudied historical source with the potential to fundamentally change the way we understand both the Soviet forced labor system and Stalinist society in general. __Gulag Letters__ offers readers an English-language translation of the letters of a single Gulag inmate, the journalist, poet, and novelist Arsenii Formakov (1900-1983), who was a prominent member of Latvia’s large and vibrant Russian Old Believer community during the interwar period. Formakov was arrested by the Soviet secret police in June 1940 as part of a broad round-up of anti-Soviet elements that began just weeks after the Soviet Union forcibly annexed Latvia, and survived two terms in Soviet labor camps (1940-1947 and 1949-1955). The letters that he mailed home to his wife and children while

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Author

Arsenii Formakov (editor); Emily D. Johnson (editor)

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300209310

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Collections, History, Literary Fiction