Author: Maggs, Peter B.
Title: The Mandelstam and "Der Nister" Files : An Introduction to Stalin-era Prison and Labor Camp Records
Description: Armonk [NY], M.E. Sharpe, (1996). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, ix,(114) pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Osip Emilevitch Mandelstam; Pinchas Mendelovich Kahanovitch; Soviet Government Agencies Dealign with Political Prisoners; About the Documents. A Prisoner's Personal File: Cover & Cover-Page; Order to Receive a Prisoner, Decision on the Selection of a Measure of Restraint;The Search Record, Arrestee Form; Intake Fingerprint Form, Preconviction Transfer to Another Prison; Search on Prison Transfer, Prisoner Photographs; Permission to Receive Items; Prisoner Interrogation Records; Extension of Detention; The Decision to Send to a Special Camp; The Decision of the Special Board, The Prisoner's Acknowledgment of the Decision of the Special Board; Transfer to Being Held for the Special Board; Order to Transfer to a Labor Camp; Camp Records -Form No. 1; Certification on Property; Medical Treatment; Death Certificates; Postmortem Fingerprinting; Burial; Correspondence with Relatives; Concluding Thoughts; Notes, The Documents.

Keywords: Russian Legal History, Soviet Union Prison, Communist Law, Penology Communism, Labor Labour, Camp Records, Yiddish Poets, Political Prisoners, Politics Russia