Title Silence was salvation : child survivors of Stalin's terror and World War II in the Soviet Union / Cathy A. Frierson

Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 267 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Annals of Communism Annals of Communism. Contents Introduction: I survived. I speak. -- "If you are interested in this kind of detail, I have remembered for all these years the smell of the perfume she was wearing and the color of her blouse" / Aleksandr Yudelevich Zakgeim -- "And we began to live there in twenty-six square meters; there were thirteen of us" / Inna Aronovna Shikheeva-Gaister -- "I, you understand, for my generation ... we have the psychology of persons devoted to society. We can't separate ourselves from society" / Andrei Ivanovich Vorobyov -- "I would ride as far as Karabas Station, but then, I don't recall, I had to go about fifty-sixty kilometers on foot" / Valentin Tikhonovich Muravsky -- "Silence was salvation. That's what I knew" / Irina Andreevna Dubrovina -- "I was so overjoyed that I had found you" / Vera Mikhailovna Kostina/Vera Yulyanovna Skiba -- "The feeling of loneliness has stalked me always" / Tamara Nikolaevna Morozova -- "I had a completely non-Soviet worldview" / Aleksandr Nikolaevich Kozyrev -- "I have dreamed my entire life, for me this would be a great joy to find my relatives" / Maya Rudolfovna Levitina -- "Well, probably, essentially, they destroyed my life, of course" / Vladimir Valerianovich Timofeev -- Appendix I: Amendments to Criminal Code (Decree of December 1, 1934) -- Appendix II: Excerpt from NKVD Operational Order 00447 -- Appendix III: Operational Order No. 00486 -- Chronology Summary Roughly ten million children were victims of political repression in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist era, the sons and daughters of peasants, workers, scientists, physicians, and political leaders considered by the regime to be dangerous to the political order. Ten grown victims, who as children suffered banishment, starvation, disease, anti-Semitism, and trauma resulting from their parents' condemnation and arrest, now freely share their stories. The result is a powerful and moving oral history of life in the U.S.S.R. under the despotic reign of Joseph Stalin Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from e-book title screen (JSTOR platform, viewed August 26, 2015) Subject Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 SUBJECT Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 fast Subject Political prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Interviews Political prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Biography Political purges -- Soviet Union -- History World War, 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union Communism -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. Communism -- Social aspects Political prisoners Political purges Politics and government Social conditions SUBJECT Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125847 Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- 1917-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97002396 Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- 1945-1991. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125856 Subject Soviet Union Genre/Form collective biographies. interviews. Anecdotes Biographies History Interviews Anecdotes. Biographies. Interviews. Anecdotes. Biographies. Interviews. Form Electronic book LC no. 2014026669 ISBN 9780300210736 0300210736

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