Survival as Victory
2021 Translated Book Award
Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag
Translated from the original Ukrainian into English
Oksana Kis – Author
Lidia Wolanskyj – Translator
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Publications – Publisher
“In recognition of this book’s contribution to women's history and the field of Gulag studies, presented through a rarely explored aspect of Soviet history — the story of Ukrainian female prisoners incarcerated in Stalin's camps.”
This groundbreaking book showcases an overlooked chapter in the history of Stalin’s notorious Gulag —the untold story of the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian women arrested, sentenced, and imprisoned in the vast network of Soviet labour camps. Relying on a rich collection of over 150 memoirs, the book tackles every aspect of repression in the Gulag system and captures the experiences, resistance, and survival of these politically active women and the many ways they sought to overcome the most brutal and dehumanization conditions.
