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Survivor of a Labor Camp Remembers Expendable Children of Mother Russia
| Author: | Kent, Leonard | |
| Year: | 1997 | |
| Pages: | 416 | |
| ISBN: | 0-7734-8534-1 978-0-7734-8534-1 | |
| Price: | $259.95 | |
This is a memoir which chronicles, in intimate detail, a harrowing but revivifying journey from the relative complacency of normality among friends and families in Minsk, to heroic survival--even triumph--in the endless whiteness of the Russian labor camp.
Reviews
"Leonard Kent's narrative of a life in and out of the gulag shows much more than convincing immersion in detail and historical truth. It demonstrates his rare capacity to see into the heart of our century's history and into the heart of a savage, timeless truth: we are what we survive, or we become what we are scarred by. In this grim and grotesque tale, Kent never sentimentalizes freedom. Yakov's winning of freedom shows something more terrifying than endurance and persistence, it shows the awful role of luck." - Prof. David Zucker, Quinnipiac College
"As his life unfolds before us, we also see twentieth century Mother Russia -- a land torn apart by revolution, by pogrom, by world war, by contradiction. The abyss of poverty belies the burgeoning industrial production. The grating hopelessness of political oppression belies the Soviet dream of social progress." -Prof. Mark Johnston, Quinnipiac College
"As his life unfolds before us, we also see twentieth century Mother Russia -- a land torn apart by revolution, by pogrom, by world war, by contradiction. The abyss of poverty belies the burgeoning industrial production. The grating hopelessness of political oppression belies the Soviet dream of social progress." -Prof. Mark Johnston, Quinnipiac College
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
The Knock on the Door
Welcome to the Cage
Gulag Glubokoye
The Visit
Games
The Accident
The Miracle Worker
A Nurse Named Masha
The Pardon
The Hospital
Making Penises
The Addict
Wrestling the Devil
In the Beginning
Off to School
War
"They're Coming!"
Peace
Lara
To Life and Death
Disillusionment and Hope
Exodus
Epilogue
Foreword
The Knock on the Door
Welcome to the Cage
Gulag Glubokoye
The Visit
Games
The Accident
The Miracle Worker
A Nurse Named Masha
The Pardon
The Hospital
Making Penises
The Addict
Wrestling the Devil
In the Beginning
Off to School
War
"They're Coming!"
Peace
Lara
To Life and Death
Disillusionment and Hope
Exodus
Epilogue