The Mandelstam File and Der Nister File: Introduction to Stalin-era Prison and Labor Camp Records

by Peter B. Maggs

Overview

Reproducing actual Soviet documents, this work examines what prison and labour camp files reveal of the fate of the poet Osip Mandelstam and the history of the Yiddish writer Pinhas Kahanovich (Der Nister). It also provides a guide to the analysis of Stalin-era prison and labour camp files.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781315485232
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/16/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	24 MB
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About the Author

Peter B. Maggs

Table of Contents

Introduction; About the Documents; A Prisoner's Personal File: Cover and Cover Page; Order to Receive a Prisoner; Order on the Selection of a Measure of Restraint; The Search Record; Arrestee Form; Intake Fingerprint Form; Preconviction Transfer to Another Prison; Search on Prison Transfer; Prisoner Photographs; Permission to Receive Items; Prisoner Interrogation Records; Extension of Detention; The Decision to Send to a Special Camp; The Decision of the Special Board; The Prisoner's Acknowledgment of Receipt of the Decision of the Special Board; Notice; Transfer to Being Held for the Special Board; Order to Transfer to a Labor Camp; Camp Records—Form No. 1; Certification on Property; Medical Treatment; Death Certificates; Postmortem Fingerprinting; Burial; Correspondence with Relatives; Concluding Thoughts;

Editorial Reviews

About two-thirds of the volume comprises reproductions of the files of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs relating to the periods that poet Osip Mandelstam (1938-40) and Yiddish writer Pinchas Kahanovitch, writing as Der Nister (1949-50) spent in Soviet prisons. In the rest Maggs (law, U. of Illinois) synthesizes what is to be learned from the documents and provides guidelines for using similar records for research. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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