Till My Tale is Told
Till My Tale is Told
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During the Soviet era, millions of Soviets were denounced and imprisoned on charges of conducting "anti-state" activities. This volume recounts the testimonies of women whose lives were brutally disrupted by the nightmare of false accusation, torture, humiliation, and unspeakable deprivation.
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Till My Tale is Told by Simeon Vilensky
During the Soviet era, millions of Soviets - Socialist Revolutionaries, peasants, ordinary citizens, Bolshevik party activists and university students - were denounced, arrested, and imprisoned on fabricated charges of conducting "anti-state" activities. This volume recounts the testimonies of women whose family lives and careers were brutally disrupted by the nightmare of false accusation, torture, humiliation, hunger and unspeakable deprivation. The women in this book were "fortunate": unlike several million others, they survived. Published in Moscow in 1989, the narratives collected in this volume were written illegally and for many years hidden away from public view. Although in 1956 political prisoners began to be officially rehabilitated and declared innocent, their writings were repressed as "slandering the Soviet system". Although most of the authors were arrested in the Great Purges of the 1930s, the selections span the entire history of the Gulag Archipelago from the 1920s to the late 1940s, adding another 16 distinctive voices to the accounts published in the west by Yevgenia Ginsburg and Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Simeon Vilensky, a former political prisoner and a writer and poet, is founder of Vozvrashchenie, an organisation in Moscow dedicated to preserving and publishing testimonies of Stalin's victims and aiding camp survivors.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781860495090 |
| ISBN 10 | 1860495095 |
| Title | Till My Tale is Told |
| Author | Simeon Vilensky |
| Series | Indiana-Michigan Series In Russian And East European Studies |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 1999-11-04 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |