{"product_id":"the-gulag-survivor-9780765800718","title":"The Gulag Survivor","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEven before its dissolution in 1991, the Soviet Union was engaged in an ambivalent struggle to come to terms with its violent and repressive history. Following the death of Stalin in 1953, entrenched officials attempted to distance themselves from the late dictator without questioning the underlying legitimacy of the Soviet system. At the same time, the Gulag victims to society opened questions about the nature, reality, and mentality of the system that remain contentious to this day.The Gulag Survivor is the first book to examine at length and in-depth the post-camp experience of Stalin''s victims and their fate in post-Soviet Russia. As such, it is an essential companion to the classic work of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Based on extensive interviews, memoirs, official records, and recently opened archives, The Gulag Survivor describes what survivors experienced when they returned to society, how officials helped or hindered them, and how issues surrounding the existence of the returnees\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction; 1: Defining the Parameters; 2: The First Return: Between Liberation and Liberalization, 1947-1953; 3: The System’s Adaptation to Repression, 1953-55; 4: The Impact of Repression on Readaptation; 5: The Politics of Readaptation and Resocialization Procedures: Policy and Practice before and after the XX Party Congress; 6: The Effect of Repression and Readaptation on Both the Returnees and the Political System; 7: The Victims Strike Again: The Reemergence of Returnees in the Eighties and Nineties","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404880159063,"sku":"9780765800718","price":123.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-gulag-survivor-9780765800718","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}