Voices from the Gulag: Life and Death in Communist Bulgaria

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Penn State Press, Nov 1, 2010 - History
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Historical Summary
37
The Crimes
45
Arrest and Deportation
55
Camp Life
65
Life After the Camp
97
The Womens Camp
113
The Nurse
133
A Brigade Chief
139
Two Guards
141
The Chief of State Security at Lovech
147
The Regional Director of State Security
153
At the Ministry of the Interior
159
AMONG THE FAMILIES
165
Index
177
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About the author (2010)

Tzvetan Todorov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria on March 1, 1939. He did his undergraduate studies at the University of Sofia and then moved to France to pursue postgraduate work. He completed his doctorate at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in 1966 and he began teaching at the National Center for Scientific Research in 1968. In 1983, he helped found the Center for Arts and Language Research, involving scholars from both institutions. He was a literary theorist and historian. He wrote numerous books including The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre, The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other, On Human Diversity, Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps, A French Tragedy: Scenes of Civil War Summer 1944, The New World Disorder: Reflections of a European, and Fear of the Barbarians: Beyond the Clash of Civilizations. He died of multiple system atrophy, a progressive brain disorder, on February 7, 2017 at the age of 77.

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