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Cargando... Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag (1999)por Janusz BARDACH
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Record of life in Stalin's Siberian Labor Camp ( ) A harrowing story of a young man's flight from his native Poland, induction in the Red Army, and years of survival in the Soviet prison camps throughout World War Two. It is a marvel that Bardach was able to survive at all much less provide introspection of the human capacity to endure punishment, harsh environments, and each other. The book did not provide as much historical context as I was hoping for, however truly provided an indepth look at one man's attempt to endure. Bardach offers a sensitive description of his fellow prisoners, captors, and his experience through the Soviet Prison system. While many times wondering if his fate could become any worse, the next page proved in fact it could, which makes the book an intense read, I find Man is Wolf to Man very worthwhile and enjoyable. In 1941, accidentally rolling a Soviet tank while fording a river was considered a capital offence by the Red Army. Unfortunately for young Janusz Bardach, he committed just such an error; luckily for him an old acquaintance from his hometown in Poland had enough rank and influence to commute the court-martial penalty from death to 10 years hard labour in Siberia. For the next four years, Bardach endured hellish conditions in various labour camps--first a logging camp, then a gold mine in the frozen north. Frigid temperatures, inadequate food and clothing combined with physical and spiritual malaise to bring prisoners first to the edge of despair and then to the brink of suicide. Bardach survived by turning his mind off, by refusing to remember happier times or to anticipate the future. He became, simply, a beast of burden, shuffling through the hours of his slavery until he could fall into the brief oblivion of sleep. Ironically, it was a near brush with death that proved to be Bardach's salvation. After surviving an explosion, he was sent to a prison hospital where he managed to talk his way into a job as a medical assistant. There he gained both a new lease on life and a future profession. Released from his sentence early, in 1945, Bardach went on to become a surgeon. His memoir, Man Is Wolf to Man, is more than just an account of his sufferings in a Russian labour camp; it is also a meditation on the will to survive in the face of hopelessness, the occasional kindnesses of strangers in unexpected places, and above all, the struggle to remain human under the most inhumane conditions. A record of survival in the Kolyma prison camp in Siberia, written by a Jewish Pole and Communist sympathiser, who was sentenced to ten years hard labour for a minor infraction. Bardach exposes not only the human suffering of the camps, but the paranoia and corruption of Stalin's regime. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Between the years1939 and 1940, after Eastern Europe was divided between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, the Polish town in which Janusz Bardach lived came under Soviet rule. After being called to serve military duty, Bardach was assigned to a tank unit. When the tank he was driving overturned, a fellow soldier accused him of provoking the accident, and he was sentenced to 10 years of forced labor in Siberia. This book narrates Bardach's journey through the Soviet Gulag until he reached Siberia and his experiences as lumberjack, miner, and nurse in a labor camp. But this tale is more than just a retelling of a man's sufferings; it is a reflection on the will to survive and on preserving one's humanity when it appears there's none to be found. Entre 1939 y 1940, tras la división de los territorios del este de Europa entre la Unión Soviética y la Alemania nazi, el pueblo polaco en el que vivía Janusz Bardach quedó bajo poder soviético. Luego de ser llamado a filas para cumplir con el servicio militar, Bardach se incorporó a una unidad de carros de combate. Cuando el tanque que conducía volcó, un compañero lo acusó de haber provocado el accidente y fue condenado a diez años de trabajos forzados en Siberia. Este libro relata el periplo de Bardach por el Gulag soviético hasta llegar a Somalia y sus experiencias como leñador, minero y enfermero en un campo de trabajo. Pero este relato es más que la narración de los sufrimientos de un hombre, es también una reflexión sobre la voluntad de supervivencia y sobre cómo preservar la humanidad cuando no hay rastro de humanidad alrededor. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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