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Gender, identity and the Polish experience of war, 1939-1945
Jolluck, Katherine R.1995.Online Search ProQuest Dissertations & Theses. Not all titles available.
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Exile and identity : Polish women in the Soviet Union during World War II
Jolluck, Katherine R.Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2002.Using firsthand, personal accounts, and focusing on those written by women, Jolluck relates and examines the experiences of thousands of civilians deported to the USSR following the Soviet annexation of Eastern Poland in 1939. Upon arrival in remote areas of the Soviet Union, they were deposited in prisons, labour camps, special settlements and collective farms, and subjected to tremendous hardships and oppressive conditions. In 1942, some 115,000 Polish citizens - only a portion of those initially exiled from their homeland - were evacuated to Iran. There they were asked to complete extensive questionnaires about their experiences. Having read and reviewed hundreds of these documents, Jolluck reveals not only the harsh treatment these women recieved, but also how they maintained their identities as respectable women and patriotic Poles. She finds that for those exiled, the ways in which they strove to recreate home in a foreign and hostile environment became a key means of their survival.
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Gulag voices : oral histories of Soviet incarceration and exile
Gheith, Jehanne M.1st ed. - New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, c2011."In this volume, the powerful voices of Gulag survivors will become accessible to English-speaking audiences for the first time through oral histories, rather than written memoirs. It brings together interviews with men and women, members of the working class and intelligentsia, people who live in the major cities and those from the "provinces," and from an array of corrective hard labor camps and prisons across the former Soviet Union. Its aims are threefold: 1) to give a sense of the range of the Gulag experience and its consequences for Russian society; 2) to make the Gulag relevant to English-speaking readers by offering comparisons to historical catastrophes they are likely to know more about, such as the Holocaust; and 3) to discuss issues of oral history and memory in the cultural context of Soviet and post-Soviet society"--Provided by publisher.In this volume, the powerful voices of Gulag survivors become accessible to English-speaking audiences for the first time through oral histories, rather than written memoirs. It brings together interviews with men and women, members of the working class and intelligentsia, people who live in the major cities and those from the "provinces, " and from an array of corrective hard labor camps and prisons across the former Soviet Union. Its aims are threefold: 1) to give a sense of the range of the Gulag experience and its consequences for Russian society; 2) to make the Gulag relevant to English-speaking readers by offering comparisons to historical catastrophes they are likely to know more about, such as the Holocaust; and 3) to discuss issues of oral history and memory in the cultural context of Soviet and post-Soviet society.
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