Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir by Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky

Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir



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Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky
Language: English
Page: 268
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0199742669, 9780199742660
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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"This is a fascinating memoir, presenting for the first time the voice of a "gulag boss." It offers a devastating counterpoint to the existing picture of Stalin's gulag that we have from victims' memoirs. The discovery and superb translation of this memoir by Deborah Kaple represents a major contribution to Gulag studies." -Lynne Viola, author of The Unknown Gulag: The Secret World of Stalin's Special Settlements


"Many memoirs by people who lived under the Stalinist regime in the USSR have appeared, but few give any real sense of how the repressive apparatus functioned. Fyodor Mochulsky's memoir offers the perspective of a Gulag prison camp official who, despite being a committed Communist, was able to sense a disjuncture between his expectations and the terrible reality he confronted. Although Mochulsky's memoir is necessarily selective and was written with the benefit of hindsight, it gives a valuable sense of some of the things he felt and the dilemmas he faced while overseeing Gulag operations. The memoir undoubtedly leaves out the worst aspects of Mochulsky's job, but he does not pretend to have been a hero or a closet dissident. If only inadvertently, his account lays bare the evils of the system he loyally served." -Mark Kramer, director of Cold War Studies, Harvard University


"Gulag Boss provides a unique and fascinating insight into the mind and morality of the men who ran the Soviet concentration camps."--Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History


"A fascinating memoir" - American Thinker


"This unique viewpoint on the harsh Stalinist prison system is an important historical document" - NY Post


"Essential reading ... I could hardly put it down." - Simon Sebag Montefiore, Literary Review


About the Author


Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky (1918-1999) was a foreman and boss at Pechorlag GULAG NKVD from 1940-1946.

Deborah Kaple is Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University. She is the author of Dream of a Red Factory: The Legacy of High Stalinism in China (OUP, 1994).

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