Flight from the Red Hell

ISBN-13: 9781433171826 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 150 str.

Virginia L. Lewis

Opis

This autobiographical narrative provides a unique personal account of the life of a Volga German under the Bolshevik Revolution and subsequent famine, agricultural collectivization, and Stalinist regime with its persecution of minorities including ethnic Germans in the Soviet Union.

Recenzje

"Volga Germans had a terrible fate in Stalin's Soviet Union. First, mercilessly persecuted during collectivization, they later found themselves cast as the enemy within after Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union. Flight from the Red Hell, a fascinating account by a Volga German fighting to survive Stalinism, offers a searing portrait of loss and survival."-Steven Usitalo, Professor of History, Northern State University

Spis treści

Foreword by Helga Neuwirt Bera - Acknowledgments - Translator's Introduction - Childhood on the Volga River - Revolution! - Famine - Back in My Homeland - The Unexpected Harvest of 1922 and the Start of My Career under Communism - Five Years in a Responsible Post - My Political Responsibilities - What Would the Year 1935 Bring? - In Prison - My Short-Lived Acquittal - Flight and Persecution - From Fugitive to Prisoner of War.

O autorze

Virginia L.Lewis is Professor of German at Northern State University. She earned her Ph.D. in Modern German Literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989. Lewis has published several English-language translations of narratives from German and Hungarian and writes on Realism in literature.