Research Catalog

Title

My journey : how one woman survived Stalin's Gulag / Olga Adamova-Sliozberg ; translated from the Russian by Katharine Gratwick Baker.

Author

Adamova-Sliozberg, O. L. (Olʹga Lʹvovna), 1902-1991.

Publication

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2011.

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Details

Description

xxxvi, 266 p., [10] p. of plates : ill., map; 23 cm.

Uniform Title

Putʹ. English

Alternative Title

Putʹ.

Subject

• Adamova-Sliozberg, O. L. 1902-1991
• 1925-1953
• Women political prisoners > Soviet Union > Personal narratives
• Political persecution > Soviet Union
• Women political prisoners > Soviet Union > Biography
• Soviet Union > History > 1925-1953

Genre/Form

• Personal narratives
• History
• Biographies
• Récits personnels.

Note

• "First published in Russian in 2002 under the title Put' by Vozvrashcheniye Press."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

My Journey -- Instead of an Introduction 3 -- A Wood Chip 5 -- The Beginning of the Road to Calvary 8 -- Lubyanka Prison 12 -- The Investigation 19 -- Methods of Investigation 22 -- A Mother's Gift 24 -- Butyrka Prison in 1936 26 -- The Trial 40 -- Solovki 44 -- Kazan Prison 55 -- Liza 62 -- Suzdal 66 -- Transport 71 -- Kolyma -- Magadan, My First Camp 76 -- Altunin 81 -- Igor Adrianovich Khorin 83 -- Mama 90 -- Galia 92 -- Bread 95 -- Basia 97 -- Gold 100 -- Polina Lvovna Gertzenberg 101 -- Labor 103 -- Devil's Wheel 106 -- Hatred 115 -- Skeleton in the Closet 120 -- Mirage 122 -- The Goner 125 -- The Chief of the Guards 128] -- Nadezhda Vasilevna Grankina 131 -- Freedom 139 -- Nikolai Vasilevich Adamov 143 -- Verochka 150 -- Return 162 -- Second Arrest 170 -- Prisoners' Transport to Karaganda 183 -- In Exile 188 -- Kerta Nourten 199 -- The Doctors' Plot 205 -- The Death of Stalin 210 -- Nikolai Adamov -- The End of the Road 212 -- Rehabilitation 215 -- Stories About my Family -- My Relatives' Struggle for My Children 221 -- Elena Lvovna Sliozberg 224 -- The Children 229 -- Yudel Ruvimovich Zakgeim 234 -- The Origin of a Family Name

ISBN

• 9780810127395 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0810127393 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011000505

OCLC

693809770

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library