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NEW BOOK:
Keeping Faith with the Party
Communist Believers Return from the Gulag
from Laura J. Baich/Indiana University - 2.17.12 - JRL 2012-33

From: "Baich, Laura J" <lbaich@indiana.edu>
Subject: New Book
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012

Now available from Indiana University Press:

Keeping Faith with the Party
Communist Believers Return from the Gulag
Nanci Adler

"In a compelling narrative that presents new information and important interdisciplinary insights, Nanci Adler takes readers through the traumatic aftermath of a long mass terror whose survivors struggle to cope with their shattered lives and sustain their Communist beliefs. For anyone interested in the Soviet Stalinist experience but also crimes against humanity elsewhere, this is an essential book." — Stephen F. Cohen, author of Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War

How is it that some prisoners of the Soviet gulag — many of them falsely convicted — emerged from the camps maintaining their loyalty to the party that was responsible for their internment? In camp, they had struggled to survive. Afterward they struggled to reintegrate with society, reunite with their loved ones, and sometimes renew Party ties. Based on oral histories, archives, and unpublished memoirs, Keeping Faith with the Party chronicles the stories of returnees who professed enduring belief in the CPSU and the Communist project. Nanci Adler's probing investigation brings a deeper understanding of the dynamics of Soviet Communism and of how individuals survive within repressive regimes while the repressive regimes also survive within them.

264 pp., 15 b&w illus.
cloth 978-0-253-35722-9 $70.00
paper 978-0-253-22379-1 $25.00

For more information, visit:
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/784014

Keywords: Russia, History, Soviet Union - Russia News - Russia

 

From: "Baich, Laura J" <lbaich@indiana.edu>
Subject: New Book
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012

Now available from Indiana University Press:

Keeping Faith with the Party
Communist Believers Return from the Gulag
Nanci Adler

"In a compelling narrative that presents new information and important interdisciplinary insights, Nanci Adler takes readers through the traumatic aftermath of a long mass terror whose survivors struggle to cope with their shattered lives and sustain their Communist beliefs. For anyone interested in the Soviet Stalinist experience but also crimes against humanity elsewhere, this is an essential book." — Stephen F. Cohen, author of Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War

How is it that some prisoners of the Soviet gulag — many of them falsely convicted — emerged from the camps maintaining their loyalty to the party that was responsible for their internment? In camp, they had struggled to survive. Afterward they struggled to reintegrate with society, reunite with their loved ones, and sometimes renew Party ties. Based on oral histories, archives, and unpublished memoirs, Keeping Faith with the Party chronicles the stories of returnees who professed enduring belief in the CPSU and the Communist project. Nanci Adler's probing investigation brings a deeper understanding of the dynamics of Soviet Communism and of how individuals survive within repressive regimes while the repressive regimes also survive within them.

264 pp., 15 b&w illus.
cloth 978-0-253-35722-9 $70.00
paper 978-0-253-22379-1 $25.00

For more information, visit:
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/784014