Survival as Victory
Author | : Oksana Kis |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 653 |
Release | : 2021-03-02 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780674258280 |
ISBN-13 | : 0674258282 |
Rating | : 4/5 (282 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Survival as Victory by : Oksana Kis
Download or read book Survival as Victory written by Oksana Kis and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survival as Victory is the first anthropological study of daily life in the Soviet forced labor camps as experienced by Ukrainian women prisoners. Oksana Kis pulls from the written and oral histories of over 150 survivors to bring to life the gendered strategies of survival, accommodation, and resistance to the dehumanizing effects of the Gulag.