Collects the writings of a diverse group of people who survived imprisonment in the Gulag, recounting their experiences and relationships, and offering insight into the psychological aspects of life in the camps.
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"Featuring over 130 drawings and texts by Danzig Baldaev--author of the acclaimed Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I, II, III--this book describes the history, horror and peculiarities of the Gulag system from its inception in 1918. Baldaev's work as a prison guard a…
"Featuring over 130 drawings and texts by Danzig Baldaev--author of the acclaimed Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I, II, III--this book describes the history, horror and peculiarities of the Gulag system from its inception in 1918. Baldaev's work as a prison guard a…
"Featuring over 130 drawings and texts by Danzig Baldaev--author of the acclaimed Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I, II, III--this book describes the history, horror and peculiarities of the Gulag system from its inception in 1918. Baldaev's work as a prison guard a…
In the 1600s, Marcos Cunamasi, an indigenous man in Pelileo, Ecuador, hid his child to protect him from officials who would put the boy to work in the textile mill. Cunamasi was forced to turn him over. Because his young son couldn't keep up with spinning his quota of wool per d…
Este trabajo académico busca desterrar esa imagen manipulada y anacrónica del indígena, de "salvaje y alejado de la historia", que fue implantada en el imaginario popular, para justificar los excesos cometidos por la sociedad. De esta manera se intenta contribuir mediante el esc…
Este trabajo académico busca desterrar esa imagen manipulada y anacrónica del indígena, de "salvaje y alejado de la historia", que fue implantada en el imaginario popular, para justificar los excesos cometidos por la sociedad. De esta manera se intenta contribuir mediante el esc…
Africa's Slaves Today, first published in 1975, examines the question of the persistence of slavery in modern Africa. It concludes that slavery is by no means dead in certain regions, but that at the same time clear-cut definitions of slave' and free' are often impossible to est…
Kim Yong shares his harrowing account of life in a labor camp & mdash;a singularly despairing form of torture carried out by the secret state. Although it is known that gulags exist in North Korea, little information is available about their organization and conduct, for prisone…
Kim Yong shares his harrowing account of life in a labor camp -- a singularly despairing form of torture carried out by the secret state. Although it is known that gulags exist in North Korea, little information is available about their organization and conduct, for prisoners ra…
Alissa father sends her to the in the city where she is forced to work without pay.
"'Alissa', says her father. 'My friend has work for you in the city. There isn't any work here in the village. You must go with him.'--Back cover note.