The terrified yell of my comrades makes me stop. I drop the potatoes into the grass and turn around. He has pulled out the pistol and is taking aim. Slowly I come back. Surviving the Gulag is the first-person account of a resourceful woman who survived five grueling years in Russian prison camps: starved, traumatized, and worked nearly to death. A story like Ilse Johansen's is rarely told--of a woman caught in the web of fascism and communism at the end of the Second World War and beginning of the Cold War. The candid story of her time as a prisoner, written soon after her release, provides startling insight into the ordeal of a German female prisoner under Soviet rule. Readers of memoir and history, and students of feminism and war studies, will learn more about women's experience of the Soviet gulag through the eyes of Ilse Johansen.
Authors
Ilse Johansen, Heather Marshall, Hans Rudolf Gahler, Michael Seadle
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 365/.45092
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Includes index Translated from the German Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- e-ur---
- ISBN
- 9781772120387 9781772122923
- LCCN
- DK268.J64
- LCCN Item number
- A3 2016eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xxxviii, 251 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00972477 (OCoLC)953887595 (CaOOCEL)452300
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Front cover 1
- Title page 4
- Copyright page 5
- Dedication 6
- Contents 8
- Translator’s Preface | Hans Rudolph Gahler 10
- Acknowledgements | Karin & Rex Marshall 12
- Editor’s Introduction | Heather Marshall 14
- Introduction | Michael Seadle 30
- Surviving the Gulag 40
- Index 278
- Other Titles from The University of Alberta Press 297
