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The Newspaper “Literature and Art of Bamlag” as a Literary Precedent of the GULAG [PDF]

Studia Litterarum, 2022
The article is devoted to artistic and publicistic material that was published on the pages of the newspaper “Literature and Art of the BAMLAG.” It belonged to one of the largest divisions of the Gulag — BAMLAG prison camp, located from 1932 to 1938 on ...
Tatyana Ye. Smykovskaya
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The GULAG experience in cultural narratives and collective identity of post-Soviet Lithuania [PDF]

Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2021
In this paper, the tendencies of rethinking the GULAG in the cultural memory of post-Soviet Lithuania (after 1990) are analyzed. The sources for the analysis were represented by ego-documents, literary works, and visual arts (movies and comics).
Čepaitienė R.
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Illiteracy Eradication Policies in the USSR in the 1950-1960s

Oriental Studies, 2018
With evidence from newly introduced archival materials, the paper studies the eradication of illiteracy among the USSR’s adult population during the 1950-1960s.
G. M. Ivanova
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Memory about Lithuanians deportees in contemporary Russia

Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 2008
GULAG and ‘Soviet terror’ are among the most important concepts for understanding modern Russia and its history. GULAG has become part of the culture and life of modern society.
Irina Flige
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The wall of silence surrounding literature and remembrance: Varlam Shalamov’s “Artificial Limbs”, Etc. as a metaphor of the soviet empire

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2020
Literature of an autobiographical character acquires a special significance in the world of the bloody tragic events of the 20th century, i.e. the Holocaust, the Second World War, the realities of the Nazi and Soviet totalitarianisms, death camps, and ...
Marcin Kępiński
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Becoming Nonhuman: The Case Study of the Gulag

Genealogy, 2019
Based on the experience of innocent individuals who were arrested and sent to the Gulag, this paper examines the transformation from being human to being nonhuman. It suggests that during this process, one shifts from belonging to nonbelonging.
Yochai Ataria
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Rutas del exilio en "Archipiélago Gulag"

Revista de Filología Románica, 2012
La obra de Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Archipiélago Gulag, supone un testimonio directo del llamado gulag, el sistema carcelario y de trabajo de la Unión Soviética. En ella el autor retrata, guiado por entrevistas personales y por su propia experiencia dentro
Ángel Clemente Escobar
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Virtual Tour of the Gulag

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: European and Regional Studies, 2015
The study presents a virtual tom of the Gulag camp (www.gulag.cz ), which consists of the 3D visualization of the labour camp and the panoramic toms of all types of barracks. It is a unique opportunity to familiarize with the conditions, to see how Gulag
Cernousek Stépán
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The history of the Memorial Museum Perm–36: the experience of historiographical comprehension and museumification

Historia provinciae: журнал региональной истории, 2021
The article studies the history of a small timber-harvesting colony that was created in the times of the GULAG labor camps, outlived the period of being a political colony, and was transformed into a museum, the Museum of the History of Political ...
Sergei A. Shevyrin
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The Prisoner Camp System in the Caspian Region of Kazakhstan in 1932-1940

RUDN Journal of Russian History, 2022
In the study of the history of Soviet camps, there are still serious gaps; in particular, there are no works that reveal the history of the creation and functioning of the camp system in the Caspian region.
Galina M. Ivanova
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