{"product_id":"enemies-of-the-state-donald-t-critchlow-9781566635219","title":"Enemies of the State: Personal Stories from the Gulag","description":"Long before Alexander Solzhenitsyn's \u003ci\u003eOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich\u003c\/i\u003e (1962) shocked the Western world with its frightening description of a typical day in a forced-labor camp during the Stalin era, some readers in the West already knew of prison life in the Soviet Union, the Eastern bloc, and other Communist countries. A powerful genre of gulag literature had 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 \u003ci\u003eEnemies of the State\u003c\/i\u003e, Donald and Agnieszka Critchlow have selected excerpts from nine of the most widely read books from this gulag literature. The stories are riveting and inspiring. They are dramatic by their nature and illustrate humanity at its heroic best. But they have historical value too, because in addition to providing a ghastly record of Communist terror, they also explain why Western readers developed such deep mistrust of \"peaceful coexistence\" with any Communist nation. Memoirs from survivors of Communist prisons confirmed beliefs that the Communists could not be trusted. They told readers that Communist regimes operated through deception and denial, and that sympathetic visitors to the Soviet Union, China, North Vietnam, and Cuba were too often misled by the carefully staged performances of Communist officials. In short, gulag literature reinforced among American anti-Communists the idea of an apocalyptic struggle between communism and Western Christendom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Donald T. Critchlow, Agnieszka Critchlow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1566635217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781566635219\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ivan R. Dee Publisher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/21\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.06h x 6.20w x 0.86d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKliatt\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2004 pg. 38","brand":"Donald T. Critchlow","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985154375935,"sku":"9781566635219","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_982b7ab6-95a5-4f30-a0f7-d474890d9f53.jpg?v=1683275871","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/enemies-of-the-state-donald-t-critchlow-9781566635219","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}