Critchlow, Donald T. & Critchlow, Agnieszka, eds. Enemies of the state; personal stories from the Gulag.Ivan R. Dee. 276p. index. c2002. 1-56663-521-7. $15.95. SA This volume is a collection of "gulag" literature designed to provide the reader with a sample of the writings that began emerging in the late 1930s and influenced Cold War attitudes toward the Soviet Union, the Eastern bloc During the Cold War, the term Eastern Bloc (or Soviet Bloc) was used to refer to the Soviet Union and its allies in Central and Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and—until the early 1960s—Albania). and other Communist countries. It includes ten authors: for example, Elinor Lipper, a Belgian Communist who moved to the Soviet Union to work for the betterment of society, and was arrested as a counterrevolutionary coun·ter·rev·o·lu·tion n. 1. A revolution whose aim is the deposition and reversal of a political or social system set up by a previous revolution. 2. A movement to oppose revolutionary tendencies and developments. in 1937 and released in 1948; John H. Noble, an American interred by both Germany and the Soviet Union, whose writing includes much information on foreign prisoners; and Nicholas Prychodko, a Ukrainian arrested and imprisoned im·pris·on tr.v. im·pris·oned, im·pris·on·ing, im·pris·ons To put in or as if in prison; confine. [Middle English emprisonen, from Old French emprisoner : en- for 21 months, who testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Also included are Richard Wurmbrand Richard Wurmbrand (March 24, 1909 - February 17, 2001) was a Romanian evangelical Christian minister, author, and educator who spent a total of fourteen years imprisoned in Romania, as well as the founder of Voice of the Martyrs. , a Jew convened to Christianity who pastored a church in Bucharest, arrested for continuing to spread the gospel; Bela Szasz, a victim of the Hungarian purge against Titoists in 1948; Robert Lob, a young Chinese Communist who escaped the country after a valiant attempt to manage a factory under the new regime; Harold William Rigney, a Catholic priest arrested as an American spy in China in 1951 and systematically tortured; John Martino John Martino (born 1937) is an American actor. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, he began his singing and acting career as a teenager. He studied with John Cassavetes, Academy of Dramatic Arts and Universal Art Studios, which led to off-Broadway theater in , an American political prisoner in Cuba; Dean Van Toai, a Saigon government official rounded up and sent to a North Vietnamese prison for 11 years under the guise of reeducation Reeducation may refer to:
A 12-page introduction describes the purpose for compiling such a volume. Each author's excerpt has its own introduction giving some of the highlights of that author's experience, historical setting and political influence. An excellent way to expand the collection for social studies and history supplementation without having to buy complete works by these authors. Ann Hart, Trustee, Juniata Cty. Lib., Mifflintown, PA |
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