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The Soviet dictatorship used secrecy to shield its processes from external scrutiny. A system of accounting for classified documentation assured the protection of secrets.
Harrison, Mark
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THE RECEPTION OF M. GORKY’S PERSONALITY AND OEUVRE IN THE 1930’S GULAG PRESS
M. Gorky’s visit of the Gulag camps remains one of the ambiguous factors of the last decade of the writer’s life (and his complicated biography in general).
T. Smykovskaya
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“Total and Radical Liberation”: The Religious and Philosophical Background of Volodymyr Vynnychenko’s Revolutionary Ideas [PDF]
The article explores the religious and philosophical origins of Volodymyr Vynnychenko’s ideas of “honesty with oneself,” “omnilateral liberation,” and “concordism.” Two treatises, Vidrodzhennia natsii (Rebirth of a Nation, 1919–1920) and Konkordyzm ...
Bilyashevych, Roman
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Memory about Lithuanians deportees in contemporary Russia
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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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
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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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 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
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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Representational tactics: approaching two Scottish performances of mental illness through the work of Michel de Certeau [PDF]
This article uses the ideas of ‘strategy’ and ‘tactics’ drawn from Michel de Certeau’s The Practice of Everyday Life in order to examine two specific Scottish performances and determine their conception of mental illness, their approach to performance ...
Dingwall-Jones, Christopher
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