Synopses & Reviews
"Gulag" literature emerged in the late 1930s and developed throughout the cold war. Books by survivors revealed in graphic detail the systematic implementation of a totalitarian police state that induced terror in its citizens through torture, imprisonment in slave labor camps, and death. In Enemies of the State, Donald Critchlow has selected excerpts from nine of the most widely read books from tiffs powerful genre. The literature reinforced among American anti-Communists the idea of an apocalyptic struggle between communism and Western Christendom.
Synopsis
Excerpts from nine of the most widely read Gulag books. In addition to providing a ghastly record of Communist terror, the Critchlows also explain why Western readers developed such deep mistrust of peaceful coexistence with any Communist nation. The Critchlows have rendered a signal service to scholarship by providing attention, access, and background to this historically important literature. -John Earl Haynes
Synopsis
In this book, Donald Critchlow has selected excerpts from nine of the most widely read books from the powerful genre of Gulag literature.
Table of Contents
The God that failed in Siberia: a tale of a disillusioned woman / Elinor Lipper -- An American's tale / John H. Noble -- A professor's tale from Ukraine / Nicholas Prychodko -- A Christian in Bucharest: the voice of the martyred / Richard Wurmbrand -- The purge: the tale of Hungarian communist / Bela Szasz -- Nightmare from the red chamber: a tale from Communist China / Robert Loh -- A priest's tale about faith in hell / Harold William Rigney -- Prisoner in paradise: a Cuban's tale / John Martino -- A tale of mistaken identity in Vietnam / Doan Van Toai and David Chanoff -- A kind of torture: a tale from the Chinese cultural revolution / Nien Cheng.