Silence was salvation : child survivors of Stalin's terror and World War II in the Soviet Union

Authors

Cathy A. Frierson, University of New Hampshire - Main CampusFollow

Abstract

This book introduces ten people who were survivors of childhood trauma during the Soviet era and who were still living in Russia in 2005–2007. The Soviet government created their suffering when it orphaned them in the 1930s and 1940s by arresting one or both of their parents, whom the state then imprisoned, exiled, or executed. The children subsequently endured social, political, and economic stigmas as offspring of “enemies of the people” or “traitors to the motherland.”

Department

History

Publication Date

2015

Publisher

Yale University Press

Document Type

Book

Recommended Citation

Cathy A. Frierson, Translator and editor, “Silence Was Salvation”: Child Survivors of Stalin’s Terror and World War II Tell Their Stories. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, Annals of Communism Series, 2015.