Ogpu Prison

Author : Sven Hassel
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 0297864211
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book O.G.P.U. Prison written by Sven Hassel and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russian uses his machine pistol like a scythe. Feldwebel remains standing for a fraction of a second. The rain of bullets pours into him, making him twitch violently. He falls to the floor. The Russian grins. There is no doubt that he is enjoying himself. Sven Hassel and his comrades are ordered to take O.G.P.U. Prison in any way they can, even if it means killing the Russians with their bare hands. Armed with flame-throwers and heavy artillery, the 27th Penal Regiment plan their attack. O.G.P.U. PRISON is one of Sven Hassel's most compulsively readable novels, full of battle scenes, written in the gritty style that Hassel is renowned for.

Author : George Kitchin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prisoner of the OGPU. written by George Kitchin and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sven Hassel
Publisher : Corgi
ISBN 13 : 9780552119764
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book OGPU Prison written by Sven Hassel and published by Corgi. This book was released on 1982-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Kitchin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781549582189
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prisoner of the OGPU written by George Kitchin and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Why should we hope? Our lives are wholly blasted, And all of us are damned by destiny?" George Kitchin provides a first-hand account of his four year imprisonment in a Soviet gulag, from 1928-32. At the time of his incarceration, Kitchin, a Finnish citizen, was working in Russia as a representative for an American firm. He was arrested by the Soviet secret police (known as the OGPU at the time), charged with violating an obscure regulation, held in prison, and then sent to a labor camp located in northern Russia where he describes the brutalities he endured and witnessed. He had the good fortune after a time to be assigned clerical work in the office of the penal camp administration. This undoubtedly saved his life and it also gave him a unique opportunity to observe the inner workings of the OGPU organization. As a citizen of Finland, his case was a matter of concern to the Finnish government, whose efforts finally obtained for him permission to leave Soviet Russia. His physical condition after four horrible years was dire. A year and a half were spent in convalescing, and another year in preparing his notes and writing this memoir of his experiences. Prisoner of the OGBU is one of the only first-hand authentic accounts of the penal camps of the Far North, and it is still relevant today in understanding and studying that brutal period of history. 'This for the market of Escape from the Soviets, and others of the sort, an account of the piled-up horrors of a prison camp of the Soviet Secret Police. Kitchin was a representative of Finnish interests, and got caught on a technicality and sent for four horrible years to the far north. First hand data of Soviet methods and inefficiencies, of the regime and a revealing picture of behind the scenes, of incredible brutalities. Well done and thrillingly absorbing reading.' - Kirkus Reviews

Author : Sven Hassel
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9780753822548
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book O. G. P. U. Prison written by Sven Hassel and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russian uses his machine pistol like a scythe. Feldwebel remains standing for a fraction of a second. The rain of bullets pours into him, making him twitch violently. He falls to the floor. The Russian grins. There is no doubt that he is enjoying himself. Sven Hassel and his comrades are ordered to take O.G.P.U Prison in any way they can, even if it means killing the Russians with their bare hands. Armed with flame-throwers and heavy artillery, the 27th Penal Regiment plan their attack.

Author : Essad (bey)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ogpu written by Essad (bey) and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vladimir Khristianovich Brunovskiĭ
Publisher : London (England) : Harper & Brothers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Methods of the OGPU written by Vladimir Khristianovich Brunovskiĭ and published by London (England) : Harper & Brothers. This book was released on 1931 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ziva Galili
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135296170
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exiled to Palestine written by Ziva Galili and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the unknown story of how Zionists imprisoned by Soviet authorities were allowed to choose sentences of permanent departure to Palestine, where they helped build Jewish society, the backbone of left-wing parties, and the powerful trade union movement. These leading authors bring to light undiscovered documents from archives opened after the collapse of the Soviet Union and go on to revise fundamental assumptions about these events. They examine the means by which internal power struggles and personal interventions in the uppermost echelons of the Soviet leadership allowed the Zionists to disseminate their message and recruit thousands of members before the massive arrests of the mid-1920s; demonstrate the extent to which personal contacts between Zionists and those who aided them, Soviet leaders and members of the security services, were vital to initiating and sustaining the practice of substitution; and using a broad array of British and Zionist documents, they reveal the crucial role of Anglo-Zionist co-operation in facilitating the immigration of Zionist convicts. This book will of great interest to all students and scholars of Jewish and Israeli, Russian and Soviet and European and British history.

Author : Veronica Shapovalov
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0742511464
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remembering the Darkness written by Veronica Shapovalov and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engrossing collection of prison memoirs by Russian women is the first to portray the direct experiences of the wide range of women who were incarcerated in Soviet prisons and camps. Comprising the stories of women from all classes and backgrounds, this book covers the entire span of the Gulag's existence from the 1920s to the 1980s, including the little-known periods of political repression of the 1960s and 1980s. These memoirs and letters provide a rich portrait of how women led everyday life in prison and in the camps, of the strategies of accommodation and resistance they employed, and the challenges they faced when they reentered Soviet society. Although readers will hear the voices of women who were in excruciating physical and emotional pain, they will also find remarkable testimonies to the agency and resilience of women who struggled against incredible odds. Written by women from all stations in life and from drastically different backgrounds, these stories reconstruct not only the world of the Gulag but also its meaning for society at large. The documents excerpted here point to areas of Soviet history and culture that have yet to be fully investigated as they illuminate women's experiences of friendship, work, hope, inspiration, loss, and terror. All the works selected for the collection are united by their authors' sense of group and individual identity. To varying degrees, all of them associate their experiences with events and people beyond their personal experiences and immediate surroundings, thus expanding the traditional perspective of women's writing. These riveting stories, never before published in English or Russian, will appeal to scholars and students of Soviet history and literature, as well as general readers interested in women's history.

Author : Michael Jakobson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081316138X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origins Of The Gulag written by Michael Jakobson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vast network of prison camps was an essential part of the Stalinist system. Conditions in the camps were brutal, life expectancy short. At their peak, they housed millions, and hardly an individual in the Soviet Union remained untouched by their tentacles. Michael Jakobson's is the first study to examine the most crucial period in the history of the camps: from the October Revolution of 1917, when the tsarist prison system was destroyed to October 1934, when all places of confinement were consolidated under one agency -- the infamous GULAG. The prison camps served the Soviet government in many ways: to isolate opponents and frighten the population into submission, to increase labor productivity through the arrest of "inefficient" workers, and to provide labor for factories, mines, lumbering, and construction projects. Jakobson focuses on the structure and interrelations of prison agencies, the Bolshevik views of crime and punishment and inmate reeducation, and prison self-sufficiency. He also describes how political conditions and competition among prison agencies contributed to an unprecedented expansion of the system. Finally, he disputes the official claim of 1931 that the system was profitable -- a claim long accepted by former inmates and Western researchers and used to explain the proliferation of the camps and their population. Did Marxism or the Bolshevik Revolution or Leninism inexorably lead to the GULAG system? Were its origins truly evil or merely banal? Jakobson's important book probes the official record to cast new light on a system that for a time supported but ultimately helped destroy the now fallen Soviet colossus.