{"product_id":"gulag-boss-a-soviet-memoir-paperback","title":"Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDeborah Kaple\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world's eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag. But not until now has there been a memoir of life inside the camps written from the perspective of an actual employee of the Secret police. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this riveting memoir, superbly translated by Deborah Kaple, Fyodor Mochulsky describes being sent to work as a boss at the forced labor camp of Pechorlag in the frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle. Only twenty-two years old, he had but a vague idea of the true nature of the Gulag. What he discovered was a world of unimaginable suffering and death, a world where men were starved, beaten, worked to death, or simply executed. Mochulsky details the horrific conditions in the camps and the challenges facing all those involved, from prisoners to guards. He depicts the power struggles within the camps between the secret police and the communist party, between the political prisoners (most of whom had been arrested for the generic crime of \"counter-revolutionary activities\") and the criminal convicts. And because Mochulsky writes of what he witnessed with the detachment of the engineer that he was, readers can easily understand how a system that destroyed millions of lives could be run\u003cbr\u003eby ordinary Soviet citizens who believed they were advancing the cause of socialism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMochulsky remained a communist party member his entire life--he would later become a diplomat--but was deeply troubled by the gap between socialist theory and the Soviet reality of slave labor and mass murder. This unprecedented memoir takes readers into that reality and sheds new light on one of the most harrowing tragedies of the 20th century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky\u003c\/strong\u003e (1918-1999) was a foreman and boss at Pechorlag GULAG NKVD from 1940-1946. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeborah Kaple\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eDream of a Red Factory: The Legacy of High Stalinism in China\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 1994).\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 12, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52444118647091,"sku":"9780199934867","price":77.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/MDFickFBV0Q3NFlnMG9xeXo4VVdTZz09.webp?v=1758930875","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/gulag-boss-a-soviet-memoir-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}