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    Cruising the Gulags
    Cruising the Gulags ab 24.49 € als Taschenbuch: . Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Reise, Reiseführer, Europa,
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    The Gulags: The History and Legacy of the Notorious Soviet Labor Camps , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 113min
    One of the most idiosyncratic horrors of Soviet Russia was the Gulag system, an extensive network of forced labor and concentration camps. Part of the rationale behind this system was that it could serve as slave labor in the drive for industrialization while also serving as a form of punishment. The name Gulag is in fact an acronym, approximating to “Main Administration of Camps” (in Russian: Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei) and operated by the Soviet Union’s Ministry of the Interior. The Gulag consisted of internment camps, forced labor camps, psychiatric hospital facilities, and special laboratories, and its prisoners were known as zeks. Such was the closed and secretive nature of the Soviet state that to this day, knowledge of the Gulag system comes mainly from Western studies, firsthand accounts by prisoners such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and some local studies after the fall of communism.The most recognizable version of the Gulag, a term that was never pluralized in Russia itself, existed from the 1930s to 1950s, a period in which a huge network of camps and prisons was established across the vast Soviet federation. Prisoners were often used as forced labor, made to do physically arduous and soul-destroying tasks. Some workers helped to build large infrastructure projects, and indeed, the system was partly rationalized in terms of economics.By the early 1960s, Gulags were synonymous with various forms of punishments, including house arrest, imprisonment in isolated places, or confinement to a mental hospital where a prisoner would be declared insane or diagnosed with a “political” form of psychosis. In its later years, the Gulags held a particular place in the public’s imagination, both within the USSR and in the outside world. They could mean exile, brutal punishment, or simply being banished to Siberia.Though it’s often forgotten today, in many respects, the Gulags represented a continuation (albeit a more far-reachin ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim D. Johnston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/141557/bk_acx0_141557_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Crime Control As Industry
    Crime Control As Industry ab 18.99 € als epub eBook: Towards Gulags Western Style. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,
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    The Long Bridge
    The Long Bridge ab 7.49 € als epub eBook: Out of the Gulags. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Biographien & Autobiographien,
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    The Seven, a Family Holocaust Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 698min
    Most Polish Jews who survived the Second World War did not go to concentration camps, but were banished by Stalin to the remote prison settlements and Gulags of the Soviet Union. Less than ten percent of Polish Jews came out of the war alive - the largest population of Jews who endured - for whom Soviet exile was the main chance for survival. Ellen G. Friedman's The Seven, a Family Holocaust Story is an account of this displacement. The title of the book comes from the closeness that set seven individuals apart from the hundreds of thousands of other refugees in the Gulags of the USSR. The Seven - a name given to them by their fellow refugees - were Polish Jews from Warsaw, most of them related. The Seven, a Family Holocaust Story brings together the very different perspectives of the survivors and others who came to be linked to them, providing a glimpse into the repercussions of the Holocaust in one extended family who survived because they were loyal to one another, lucky, and endlessly enterprising. Interwoven into the survivors' accounts of their experiences before, during, and after the war are their own and the author's reflections on the themes of exile, memory, love, and resentment. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Elise Black. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/146172/bk_acx0_146172_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Kolyma / Leo Demidow Bd.2
    Der zweite Band der Thrillerreihe um den Geheimdienstoffizier Leo DemidowKolyma - das ist der Vorhof der Hölle. Am äußersten Rand von Sibirien gelegen, tausende Kilometer von Moskau entfernt, gibt es hier nur Steine, Schnee, Permafrost - und Lager. Die schlimmsten Gulags der Sowjetunion. In diese eisige Wüste lässt Leo Demidow sich einschmuggeln, denn seine Tochter wurde entführt, und ihr Leben steht auf dem Spiel. Doch als einer der Mithäftlinge ihn als ehemaligen KGB-Agenten enttarnt, sitzt Leo plötzlich in einer tödlichen Falle ...
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    The Appraisal , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 568min
    When wealthy octogenarian Geza Marton hires art expert Helena Marsh to buy back his family’s Titian painting, Helena flies to Budapest to close what she expects will be a reasonably simple sale. But Helena discovers that there are multiple bidders for the painting, including some dangerous Slavs.  Soon there are also dead bodies and a complicated history that leads her to men Marton knew in Vorkuta, one of Stalin’s notorious gulags. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tandy Cronyn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/howe/004204/bk_howe_004204_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Enlightenment: Bolinda Beginner Guides , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 586min
    The Enlightenment has been nothing if not divisive, being blamed for bloody disasters - Auschwitz, the gulags, Islamic terrorism - as well as being heralded as the harbinger of reason and equality. To this day historians disagree over when it was, where it was, and what it was (or whether it still is). Kieron O’Hara deftly traverses these conflicts, presenting the history, ideology, culture, and social life of the Enlightenment, not as a simple set of easily enumerated ideas, but rather as an evolving conglomerate that spawned a very diverse set of thinkers, from the radical Rousseau to the conservative Burke. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Deidre Rubenstein. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/001205/bk_boli_001205_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Yalu River Boys: The True Story of a B-29 Bomber Crew's Combat and Captivity in the Korean War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 674min
    The Yalu River Boys is the true story of the forgotten men from the forgotten war. Follow a B-29 bomber crew as it battles Russian MiG-15 fighters in the heart of MiG Alley during the Korean War. Learn the heartbreaking truth of the communist prison camp gulags, the cruelty of the North Korean enemy, and the propaganda attacks from friend and foe. Marvin King joined the US Air Force in peacetime but soon found himself in the midst of jet-age aerial combat, captured and taken into China, and later subjected to the abject horror of a place in North Korea known only as The Caves. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Perry Storkson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/158770/bk_acx0_158770_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Durch den Schnee: Erzählungen aus Kolyma 1, Hörbuch, Digital, 154min
    Warlam Schalamow verbrachte als oppositioneller Journalist 17 Jahre in stalinistischen Gulags und arbeitete dort unter unmenschlichen Bedingungen. Erst nach Stalins Tod wurde er rehabilitiert. In den 50er Jahren begann er heimlich mit den Erzählungen aus Kolyma. Sie blieben in der UdSSR verboten, kursierten allerdings in illegalen Kreisen und gelangten in den Westen. Schalamow wurde daraufhin von der russischen Regierung gezwungen, eine Erklärung über die mangelnde Relevanz seiner Erzählungen zu veröffentlichen. Auf Russisch erschien erst 1978 eine Auswahl. Diese Erzählungen zählen zu den bewegendsten Texten aus den sibirischen Gefangenenlagern. Gabriele Leupolds Übersetzung erschien 2007 und wurde von der Presse euphorisch gefeiert. Hanns Zischler liest eine Auswahl, außerdem ist Schalamow selbst in einer seltenen Originaltonaufnahme mit zwei Gedichten aus den bislang unveröffentlichten Kolymaer Heften zu hören. deutsch. Hanns Zischler, Warlam Schalamow. https://samples.audible.de/bk/hoer/000636/bk_hoer_000636_sample.mp3.
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