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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"gulag"”.
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A Vanishing Act: Gulag Narratives and Their Afterlife
A Vanishing Act: Gulag Narratives and Their Afterlife examines the crucial role Gulag narratives play in the reexamination of the communist past in Russia, Romania, and Bulgaria but also the way in which they contribute to the emergence of a new prescriptive (meta)language for describing that past …
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The Gulag and Soviet Society in Western Siberia, 1929-1953
“The Gulag and Soviet Society in Western Siberia, 1929-1953” examines the history of forced labour during the Stalin era in Western Siberia, or present-day Novosibirsk, Tomsk and Kemerovo Provinces. The region was a key site of Stalin-era repression, as it was home to numerous Gulag camps including …
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An existential phenomenological exploration of the lived experience of freedom in former political prisoners of the Romanian Communist Gulag
… political prisoners of the Romanian Communist Gulag and their experience of freedom/oppression. Most research on individuals subjected to physical or/and psychological torture for political reasons has focused on the traumatic experiences of this client group and their sequelae approximating …
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The Trauma of Stalinism Narrated in Varlam T. Shalamov's Kolymskie Rasskazy : Missiological Implications for Contemporary Russia
<p>Stalinism and the punitive system of the Gulag left an indelible stamp on the entire social matrix of Russia. Because of the multidimensional and multigenerational nature of the trauma of Stalinism, Russian society retains the label of a traumatized culture. This dissertation explores the …
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'A Fragment of Wholeness': The Making of the Poetic Subject in Vasyl Stus's Palimpsests
… in the works of the Ukrainian dissident poet and Gulag prisoner Vasyl Stus (1938-1985). Focusing on Stus’s magnum opus collection Palimpsests (1971-1979), where the poet casts the inhuman conditions of his incarceration to the periphery and instead engages in radical introspection, I show how …
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Bunty w łagrach sowieckich po śmierci Stalina na podstawie relacji polskich świadków i uczestników
… mutinies occurred in three special camps of Gulag: Gorlag in Norilsk, Rechlag in Vorkuta and Steplag in Kengir. Incarcerated in those places zeks hoped for releasing and liberalization of camps’ regime, especially after amnesty that had been governed on 27th March 1953. Reality which had not …
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The Feminine Eros as the motive force of Russian history: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s intertextual dialogue with Marina Tsvetaeva
… texts and the memoirs of female survivors of the gulag.
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Ideologies, Histories, and Representations of Work and Labour in Contemporary German-Language Literature: Forced Labour, Sex Work, and State Socialist Labour Ideologies
… through labour that underpinned the Soviet gulag system. I then move with Herta Müller and Volker Braun into the third section by analysing the imbrications of sex and work in several of Braun’s works and in Müller’s Der Mensch ist ein großer Fasan auf der Welt, using these texts as a way of …
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Online and brick-and-mortar museums in Central and Eastern Europe (1989-present)
Online museums experienced their renaissance during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Even before 2020, however, they occupied a prominent – yet under-researched – place on Central and Eastern Europe’s commemorative landscape. Historians and museologists have analysed brick-and-mortar museums, but they …
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The Heritage of Repression: Memory, Commemoration, and Politics in Post-Soviet Russia
This dissertation focuses on portrayals of victims and perpetrators at sites related to Soviet repression in contemporary Moscow and Yekaterinburg, Russia. Its aim is to explore the different ways in which site stakeholders choose to interpret victims and perpetrators: specifically, how they handle …