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The Repression-Dissent Nexus in High-Threat Environments: Evidence From the Romanian Gulag

Comparative Political Studies
This paper investigates how exposure to political repression shapes dissent in high-threat environments in the long term. We develop a theory of repression-induced norm formation, arguing that proximity to repressive institutions fosters anti-regime ...
Vlad Surdea‐Hernea, A. Plopeanu
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The narrative of intelligentsia in the era of the Gulag (based on literary nonfiction and historical facts)

OOO "Zhurnal "Voprosy Istorii", 2022
The purpose of this study is to revise and comprehend the historical significance of the intellectuals who survived the Gulag era and succumbed to repression in the camps, and the intelligentsia who did not compromise and firmly followed their beliefs ...
Hyezin Chang
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America's Gulag Archipelago

New England Journal of Medicine, 2004
At the Fernald State School for the Feebleminded in Waltham, Massachusetts, Fred Boyce and hundreds of other children were subjected to systematic physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. Dr. Norman Fost writes about Boyce and The State Boys Rebellion by the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Michael D'Antonio.
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A Video Game About Gulag Archaeology and the Memoirs of Women Prisoners

IEEE Games Entertainment Media Conference
Video games can be an effective medium for attaining learning goals, going beyond the function of entertainment. They also offer people an opportunity to virtually explore past an present sites of historic importance. With the growing popularity of video
Petros Selekos, Stefania Stamou, K. Apostolakis, Anastasia Ntagianta, S. Ntoa, G. Margetis, C. Stephanidis   +6 more
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GULAG SONGS AND POEMS IN THE MEMOIRS OF YU.P. YAKIMENKO

Folklore: structure, typology, semiotics
The publication presents prison songs and poems from the typewritten text of Yu.P. Yakimenko’s memoirs “On prisons and camps: memories” (the document is stored in the collection of memoirs and literary works of the Archive of GULAG History of the ...
Vasilii A. Vorob’ev
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Coerced Labour, Forced Displacement, and the Soviet Gulag, 1880s-1930s

The Gulag remains one of the key symbols of twentieth-century mass political violence. Thanks to recent archive-based investigations, we now understand the scope of the system, variations between different camp complexes, and modalities of the use of ...
Zhanna Popova
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Atomized urbanism: secrecy and security from the Gulag to the Soviet closed cities

Urban History, 2021
This article recovers the early history of the Soviet ‘closed city’, towns that during the Cold War were absent from maps and unknown to the general public due to their involvement in weapons research.
A. Siddiqi
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The Gulag

Abstract A vast system of prisons, camps, and exile settlements, the Gulag was one of the defining institutions of the Stalinist Soviet Union and one of the most heinous examples of mass incarceration in the twentieth century. Combining the functions of a standard prison system with the goal of isolating and punishing alleged enemies of ...
Olga Kenton, Natasha Rulyova
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Gulag Memories

2018
Though the institution of the Gulag was nominally closed over half a decade ago, it lives on as an often hotly contested site of memory in the post-socialist era. This ethnographic study takes a holistic, comprehensive approach to understanding memories of the Gulag, and particularly the language of commemoration that surrounds it in present-day ...
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Archipelag Gulag (Arcipelago Gulag)

2019
Breve storia della composizione di "Arcipelago Gulag" di A. Solzenicyn.
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