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PublisherUniversity of California Press

ISBN-100520237358

ISBN-139780520237353

eBay Product ID (ePID)2421364

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Book TitleSurviving Freedom : after the Gulag

Number of Pages269 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPolitical, Europe / General, Jewish

Publication Year2003

IllustratorYes

GenreBiography & Autobiography, History

AuthorKathleen Gleeson, Janusz Bardach

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight19.2 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2002-152219

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal947.085/092 B

Table Of ContentPreface PROLOGUE 1. VIEW FROM THE EMBASSY WINDOW 2. WAITING FOR TOMORROW 3. JOURNEY TO THE PAST 4. THE HOUSE ON THE HILL 5. FARNA STREET 6. NO MAN'S LAND 7. LYING AND CHEATING 8. GUARDIAN OF THE DEAD 9. MARCHING ON RED SQUARE 10. FIRST FINAL EXAMS 11. POSTWAR POLAND 12. FAMILY OF FRIENDS 13. SUMMER 1947 14. FINDING MY WAY 15. ENEMIES EVERYWHERE 16. COMING INTO MY OWN 17. ASPIRANTURA 18. LOWER THAN GRASS, QUIETER THAN STILL WATER 19. THE END OF TERROR EPILOGUE Acknowledgments Maps and photos

SynopsisIn the critically acclaimed "Man Is Wolf to Man, " Bardach recounted his horrific experiences in the Kolyma labor camps in northeastern Siberia. In this sequel, Bardach presents a unique portrait of postwar Stalinist Moscow as seen through the eyes of a person who is both an insider and outsider. 20 photos., In 1941, as a Red Army soldier fighting the Nazis on the Belarussian front, Janusz Bardach was arrested, court-martialed, and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. Twenty-two years old, he had committed no crime. He was one of millions swept up in the reign of terror that Stalin perpetrated on his own people. In the critically acclaimed Man Is Wolf to Man, Bardach recounted his horrific experiences in the Kolyma labor camps in northeastern Siberia, the deadliest camps in Stalin's gulag system. In this sequel Bardach picks up the narrative in March 1946, when he was released. He traces his thousand-mile journey from the northeastern Siberian gold mines to Moscow in the period after the war, when the country was still in turmoil. He chronicles his reunion with his brother, a high-ranking diplomat in the Polish embassy in Moscow; his experiences as a medical student in the Stalinist Soviet Union; and his trip back to his hometown, where he confronts the shattering realization of the toll the war has taken, including the deaths of his wife, parents, and sister. In a trenchant exploration of loss, post-traumatic stress syndrome, and existential loneliness, Bardach plumbs his ordeal with honesty and compassion, affording a literary window into the soul of a Stalinist gulag survivor. Surviving Freedom is his moving account of how he rebuilt his life after tremendous hardship and personal loss. It is also a unique portrait of postwar Stalinist Moscow as seen through the eyes of a person who is both an insider and outsider. Bardach's journey from prisoner back to citizen and from labor camp to freedom is an inspiring tale of the universal human story of suffering and recovery.

LC Classification Number2002152219