The Mandelstam File and Der Nister File

Introduction to Stalin-era Prison and Labor Camp Records

• Author(s): Peter B. Maggs,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 128
• ISBN_10: 1315485230
  ISBN_13: 9781315485232
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Political Science / General ,

Description:... 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.