Gulag fiction: labour camp literature from Stalin to Putin
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Main Author: Jones, Polly 1975- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney Bloomsbury Academic 2025
Series:Russian shorts
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Abstract:"The Soviet labour camp system, or Gulag, was a highly complex network of different types of penal institutions, scattered across the vast Soviet territory and affecting millions of Soviet citizens directly and indirectly. As Gulag Fiction shows, its legacies remain palpable today, though survivors of the camps are now increasingly scarce, and successive Soviet and post-Soviet leaders have been reluctant to authorise a full working through of the Gulag past. This is the first book to compare Soviet, samizdat and post-Soviet literary prose about the Gulag as penal system, carceral experience and traumatic memory. Polly Jones analyses prose texts from across the 20th and 21st centuries through the prism of key themes in contemporary Soviet historiography and Holocaust literature scholarship: selfhood and survival; perpetration and responsibility; memory and post-memory." -- Publisher's description
Physical Description:xi, 150 Seiten 21 cm
ISBN:9781350250383
9781350250390