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Gulag Fiction: Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350250390)
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xThis unique exploration of Russian prose fiction about the Soviet labour camp system since the Stalin era compares representations of identity, ethics and memory across the corpus.
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 Fictionshows, 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.
Author: Polly Jones
ISBN-10: 1350250392
ISBN-13: 9781350250390
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 11/14/2024
Pages: 168
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.44d
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 Fictionshows, 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.
Author: Polly Jones
ISBN-10: 1350250392
ISBN-13: 9781350250390
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 11/14/2024
Pages: 168
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.44d
By Polly Jones
xPolly Jones is Associate Professor of Russian at the University of Oxford, UK. She has published extensively on Soviet literature and memory politics, including two monographs (Myth, Memory, Trauma (2013) and Revolution Rekindled (2019)), several edited volumes (including The Dilemmas of De-Stalinization (2006)) and numerous articles. She is embarking on a new collaborative project about the concept of the '101st kilometre' in Soviet penal policy and practice.
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