Women of the Gulag portraits of five remarkable lives - Gregory, Paul R.; ebrary, Inc. (Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, 2013)
Terror's human face -- Stalin : struggles and successes -- Agnessa : elite NKVD wife -- Maria : portrait of the new Soviet family -- Evgenia : luxury with a beast -- Adile : princess bride of Abkhazia -- Fekla : child of the kulaks -- Stalin : the storm descends -- Agnessa : crashing a funeral -- Stalin : launching the great terror -- Agnessa : the purge spreads far and wide -- Maria : a narrow escape -- Evgenia : socialist realist -- Adile : the master will not abandon us -- Fekla : becoming a Bolshevik -- Stalin : the master needs a scapegoat -- Agnessa : new year's eve with the Master -- Maria : wife of a traitor to the motherland -- Evgenia : losing everything -- Adile : return and arrest -- Fekla : face of the future -- Aftermath.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: GULag NKVD; Women political prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Biography; Political persecution -- Soviet Union; Concentration camps -- Soviet Union; Prisons -- Soviet Union; Forced labor -- Soviet Union; Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953.; Electronic books