Gulag Casual

2016 Graphic novels

Author : Austin English
Release : 2016
Genre : Graphic novels
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 194/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Gulag Casual written by Austin English. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gulag Casual, by acclaimed illustrator and cartoonist Austin English, presents some of the most mature and sustained work yet from a constantly challenging and essential artist. This new suite of short stories collects material from 2010–2015, showcasing the kind of imaginative imagery which firmly establishes English as one of the most innovative cartoonists in practice today.

Gulag

2007-12-18 History

Author : Anne Applebaum
Release : 2007-12-18
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 122/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Gulag written by Anne Applebaum. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • This magisterial and acclaimed history offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost. “A tragic testimony to how evil ideologically inspired dictatorships can be.” –The New York Times The Gulag—a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners—was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. Applebaum intimately re-creates what life was like in the camps and links them to the larger history of the Soviet Union. Immediately recognized as a landmark and long-overdue work of scholarship, Gulag is an essential book for anyone who wishes to understand the history of the twentieth century.

Gulag

2018-02-08 Young Adult Fiction

Author : Solzhenitsyn
Release : 2018-02-08
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 515/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Gulag written by Solzhenitsyn. This book was released on 2018-02-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gulag adalah neraka bagi rakyat Uni Sovyet di bawah kekuasaan Stalin yang tersembunyi dari mata dunia. Tak seorang pun mampu luput darinya, termasuk pemuka agama, wanita, bahkan anak-anak. Dengan gaya bertutur yang tangkas dan lincah, kadang berbau satiris, Solzhenitsyn menuturkan operasi penangkapan, kamp kerja paksa, suasana batin dan derita fisik para tahanan, dan orang-orang yang secara mengejutkan memiliki keteguhan moral menghadapi penindasan dan penyiksaan, serta kehidupan di pengasingan. Solzhenitsyn lebih menekankan aspek moral dari persoalan yang diangkatnya ini. Pengungkapan kekejaman dan keculasan yang dilakukan sebuah rezim penguasa tidak cukup hanya dipandang sebagai masalah politik, tetapi juga merupakan masalah moral yang mengantarkan pembaca pada pertanyaan-pertanyaan mendasar tentang sifat manusia sendiri: apakah manusia pada dasarnya memang jahat? Ataukah baik? Dan mungkin yang paling penting: mengapa manusia sering kali tidak mampu menentang kejahatan yang terjad di depan matanya sendiri? Melalui versi ringkas The Gulag Archipelago ini, Solzhenitsyn sekali lagi membuktikan bahwa kekuasaan pemerintah memang mampu melakukan berbagai bentuk kekejaman kepada manusia, fisik maupun mental, tapi tidak akan pernah bisa benar-benar memadamkan semangat manusia. [Mizan, Bentang Pustaka, Novel Terjemahan, Sosial, Politik, Dewasa, Indonesia]

Rethinking the Gulag

2022-03-01 History

Author : Alan Barenberg
Release : 2022-03-01
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 593/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Gulag written by Alan Barenberg. This book was released on 2022-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soviet Gulag was one of the largest, most complex, and deadliest systems of incarceration in the 20th century. What lessons can we learn from its network of labor camps and prisons and exile settlements, which stretched across vast geographic expanses, included varied institutions, and brought together inmates from all the Soviet Union's ethnicities, professions, and social classes? Drawing on a massive body of documentary evidence, Rethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies explores the Soviet penal system from various disciplinary perspectives. Divided into three sections, the collection first considers "identities"—the lived experiences of contingents of detainees who have rarely figured in Gulag histories to date, such as common criminals and clerics. The second section surveys "sources" to explore the ways new research methods can revolutionize our understanding of the system. The third section studies "legacies" to reveal the aftermath of the Gulag, including the folk beliefs and traditions it has inspired and the museums built to memorialize it. While all the chapters respond to one another, each section also concludes with a reaction by a leading researcher: geographer Judith Pallot, historian Lynne Viola, and cultural historian and literary scholar Alexander Etkind. Moving away from grand metaphorical or theoretical models, Rethinking the Gulag instead unearths the complexities and nuances of experience that represent a primary focus in the new wave of Gulag studies.

Fragments of Lives

2019-04-01 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Jacques Rossi
Release : 2019-04-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 006/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Fragments of Lives written by Jacques Rossi. This book was released on 2019-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Fragmented Lives, Gulag survivor Jacques Rossi opens a window onto everyday life inside the notorious Soviet prison camp through a series of portraits of inmates and camp personnel across all walks of life—from workers to peasants, soldiers, civil servants, and party apparatchiks. Featuring Rossi’s original illustrations and written in a sharp and dry tone, Rossi’s vignettes are also filled with surprising humor. A former agent in the Spanish Civil War and a lifelong Communist, Rossi never considered himself a victim. Instead, in the manner of Primo Levi, Solzhenitsyn, and Margaret Buber-Neumann, he sought to share and transmute his experience within the living hell of the Gulag. In so doing, he gives voice to the inmates whose lives were shattered by one of the most corrupt and repressive regimes of the twentieth century. An impassioned reminder to always question one’s beliefs, to have the courage to give up one’s illusions at the risk of one’s life, Fragmented Lives lays bare, with acute observations and biting wit, the falsity of the Soviet utopia that transformed Rossi’s home into a “huge Potemkin village, a farcical sham dissimulating oceans of mud and blood.”

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