Keeping faith with the Party [electronic resource] : Communist believers return from the Gulag / Nanci Adler.

Introduction: enduring repression
The Gulag prisoner and the Bolshevik soul
Reconciling the self with the system
Beyond belief: party identification and the "bright future"
Striving for a "happy ending": attempts to rehabilitate socialism
The legacies of the repression
Epilogue: the "bright past," or whose (hi)story?.