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MSAB 2389

Wom Prisoners Stalin Lbr Camps

Women prisoners in Stalin's labor camps - from lawlessness to rehabilitation: based on E.S. Ginzburg's memoires
The course is based on E.S. Ginzburg’s memoir “Into the Whirlwind”. The unique feature of this source is that it gives a detailed description of each trial a common USSR citizen would have to undergo in the 1930s – early 1950s once they had been suspected of committing a political crime. Written by a woman, whose fate was much harder than that of male prisoners, it also gives particular attention to the problem of deprivation of the right to have a family and parent your children in the totalitarian Soviet State.
Subject:
Middlebury School Abroad
Department:
Russia
Division:
Middlebury Schools Abroad
Requirements Fulfilled:
EUR SOC WTR
Equivalent Courses:
IGST 2389 *

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