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‘Malenkey Robot’ in the Carpathian Basin, in Hungary – Data, Facts, Interpretations, Connections

open access: yesActa Universitatis Sapientiae: European and Regional Studies, 2015
Interpretation problems related to the notion of ‘malenkaya rabota,’ POW, internee, GULAG and GUPVI. Ways of classification of the victims of ‘malenkaya rabota' in the Carpathian Basin, various groups and types.
Bognár Zalán
doaj   +1 more source

Il problema dell’indescrivibile nelle testimonianze letterarie: Se questo è un uomo di Primo Levi e Un mondo a parte di Gustaw Herling-Grudziński

open access: yesPolilog: Studia Neofilologiczne, 2017
The problem of inexpressibility in literary testimonies: Primo Levi’s If this is a man and Gustaw Herling-Grudziński’s Another world The aim of the article is to compare how Primo Levi and Gustaw Herling-Grudziński confront the problem of ...
Olga Kutzner
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Fania (Fanny) Kaplan and the attempted assassination of Vladimir Lenin: Ophthalmologic considerations

open access: yesActa Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose Fania (Fanny) Kaplan (1890–1918), who was reportedly visually impaired, confessed to the attempted assassination of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) in 1918 by shooting him with a pistol. The precise nature of her visual loss is unknown and raises doubts about whether she had sufficient visual function to perform the act ...
Stephen G. Schwartz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sowieckie prawo karne w oczach łagiernika. Aleksandra Sołżenicyna wykład o prawie karnym w świetle Archipelagu GUŁag

open access: yesKrakowskie Studia z Historii Państwa i Prawa, 2022
Soviet Criminal Law in the Eyes of a Gulag Prisoner: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s Lecture on Criminal Law in Light of The Gulag Archipelago In his monumental non-fiction book, The Gulag Archipelago ...
Adam Lityński
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
wiley   +1 more source

‘Liberation’ of ‘Younger Brothers’ or Genocide of Subhumans? Genocidal Discourses on Ukrainians in Putin's Regime

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores Russia's genocidal discourses on Ukrainians, focusing on the predominant narrative that frames cultural genocide as the ‘liberation’ of Ukrainians through the erasure of their cultural identity. Existing literature tends to overlook this form of genocidal discourse, which diverges from typical ‘othering’ by instead ...
Martin Laryš
wiley   +1 more source

O gulag e a literatura de gulag: um balanço das pesquisas

open access: yesEstudos Avançados
Resumo: Este artigo apresenta um panorama dos debates historiográficos, antigos e recentes, sobre a literatura produzida no complexo de campos de concentração soviéticos (o "gulag").
Andrea Gullotta
doaj   +1 more source

Caminhadas longas, jornadas incríveis: fantasias populares de fuga e de regresso a casa

open access: yesForma Breve, 2016
Em 1956, Slawomir Rawicz publicou um relato de sua ousada fuga de um gulag soviético em 1941, que levou a uma caminhada de 6.500 quilômetros na Sibéria, Mongólia, Tibete e através do Himalaia até a liberdade, onze meses depois, na Índia do império ...
Anthony Barker
doaj   +1 more source

Critical Camp Studies: A State of the Art

open access: yesPopulation, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Scholarship on camps is extensive yet highly fragmented, structured around disciplinary, geographical, and theoretical silos that rarely enter into sustained dialogue. While numerous studies and literature reviews have examined camps through specific lenses (humanitarian governance, sovereignty, biopolitics, architecture) no comprehensive ...
Alex T. Fusco
wiley   +1 more source

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