Autumn 2009 Catalogue 4 pdfing:1 - Yale University Press

Children of the GulagHistoryCathy A. Frierson and Semyon S. VilenskyThis groundbreaking book offers a comprehensive documentary historyof children whose parents were identified as enemies of the Soviet regimefrom its inception to Joseph Stalin’s death. When parents were arrested,executed or sent to the Gulag, their children also suffered. Millions ofchildren, labelled ‘socially dangerous’, lost parents, homes and siblings.Co-edited by Cathy A. Frierson, a senior American scholar, and SemyonS. Vilensky, Gulag survivor and compiler of the Russian documents, thebook offers documentary and personal perspectives.The editors present top-secret documents in translation from the Russianstate archives, memoirs and interviews with child survivors. The editors’narrative reveals how such prolonged child victimisation could occur,who knew about it, and who tried to intervene on the children’s behalf.The editors show how the emotions from childhood trauma persist intothe twenty-first century, passing from victims to their children andgrandchildren. Interviews with child survivors also display their resilientability to fashion productive lives despite family destruction and stigma.29February448 pp. 234x156mm. 29 b/w illus.ISBN 978-0-300-12293-0 £40.00*Russian rights: held by the authorsCathy A. Frierson has held the Class of 1941 and Arthur K. WhitcombResearch Professorships at the University of New Hampshire and is theauthor or editor of a number of books about Russia. Semyon SamuilovichVilensky was a Gulag prisoner and journalist who serves as chair of theMoscow literary-historical society ‘The Return’ and on the RussianFederation’s Presidential Commission for the Rehabilitation of Victims ofPolitical Repression. He is also the editor of Till My Tale Is Told, acollection of memoirs by women prisoners in the Gulag.Annals of Communism SeriesTRIPLEXSecrets from the Cambridge SpiesEdited by Nigel West and Oleg TsarevTRIPLEX reveals more clearly than ever before the precise nature andextent of the damage done to the much-vaunted British intelligenceestablishment during World War II by the notorious ‘Cambridge Five’spy ring—Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Bluntand John Cairncross. The code word TRIPLEX refers to anexceptionally sensitive intelligence source, one of the most closelyguarded secrets of the war, which appears nowhere in any of the Britishgovernment’s official histories. TRIPLEX was material extracted illicitlyfrom the diplomatic pouches of neutral missions in wartime London.MI5, the British Security Service, entrusted the job of overseeing thehighly secret assignment to Anthony Blunt, who was already workingfor the NKVD, Stalin’s intelligence service. The rest is history,documented here for the first time in rich detail.“[The first] complete report [on the Cambridge Five that] gives thereader the opportunity to judge for himself the extent of the damagedone to the British service concerned . . . [will be] greeted withenthusiasm by specialists in intelligence history.”—David Murphy,former CIA Berlin chief, former chief of Soviet operations at CIAheadquarters in the United States and author of What Stalin KnewOctober384 pp. 234x156mm.ISBN 978-0-300-12347-0 £25.00*Nigel West is a renowned British historian of military intelligence andhas written more than 25 related books. Oleg Tsarev is a retired KGBofficer who has co-written a number of books on wartime espionageand intelligence.