Title Gulag letters / Arsenii Formakov ; edited, translated, and with an introduction by Emily D. Johnson

Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017] ©2017

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Description 1 online resource Series Yale-Hoover series on authoritarian regimes Yale-Hoover series on authoritarian regimes. Summary Emily Johnson has translated and edited a fascinating collection of letters written by Arsenii Formakov, a Latvian Russian poet, novelist, and journalist, during two terms in Soviet labour camps, 1940 to 1947 in Kraslag and 1949 to 1955 in Kamyshlag and Ozerlag. This correspondence, which Formakov mailed home to his family in Riga, provides readers with a first-hand account of the workings of the Soviet penal system and testifies to the hardships of daily life for Latvian prisoners in the Gulag Notes Translated from the Russian Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Translated from the Russian Vendor-supplied metadata Subject Formakov, Arseniĭ -- Correspondence Political prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Correspondence Poets, Latvian -- Correspondence Labor camps -- Soviet Union BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General. Labor camps Poets, Latvian Political prisoners Soviet Union Genre/Form personal correspondence. Personal correspondence Personal correspondence. Correspondance privée. Form Electronic book Author Johnson, Emily D., translator. LC no. 2016953815 ISBN 9780300228199 0300228198

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