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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Hunger Angel The Hunger Angel Herta Müller It was an icy morning in January 1945 when the patrol came for seventeen-year-old Leo Auberg to deport him to a Gulag camp in the Soviet Union. Leo would spend the next five years in a coke processin… OL16451489W
Under a blood red sky Under a blood red sky Kate Furnivall "Davinsky Labour Camp, Siberia, 1933: Sofia Morozova knows she has to escape. Only two things have sustained her through the bitter cold, aching hunger and hard labour: the prospect of one day walkin… OL21182364W
Bajo un Cielo Rojo Sangre Bajo un Cielo Rojo Sangre Kate Furnivall 596 pages ; 24 cm OL21299859W
The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Steinbeck’s classic novel of the Great Depression is as vivid now as ever. The story focuses on a family of Oklahoma sharecroppers, farmers who work another man’s land for a share of the crops. Drive… OL23205W
Mennonite alternative service in Russia Mennonite alternative service in Russia Lawrence Klippenstein,Jacob Dick viii, 163 p. : 23 cm OL23840029W
Fugarii Fugarii Ruxandra Cesereanu De-a lungul secolului XX, regimurile totalitare au folosit cele mai dure mijloace pentru a-si anihila opozantii. Unii dintre cei persecutati erau torturati sau ucisi imediat dupa capturare, altii era… OL28170032W
Unjust Enrichment Unjust Enrichment Linda Goetz Holmes During World War II, 32,260 Americans were held as prisoners of war of the Japanese. Thousands were shipped to do forced labor in the factories, shipyards, & mines of Japan--at the specific request o… OL3581237W
Against destiny Against destiny A. Dolinin "A fictional account of an escape from a Stalinist labor camp, showing the harsh and inhuman conditions of the Gulag and the heroism of the five unjustly condemned prisoners as they cross Siberia in … OL4361584W
Kolymskie rasskazy Kolymskie rasskazy Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov Shalanov is a unique historical witness of the cruellest region of Stalin's Gulag Archipelago, the white hill of Kolyma. He also happens to be one of the finest short story writers, not only in Russi… OL619700W