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Book review: Jacques the Frenchman: Memories of the Gulag

open access: yes, 2022
Review of Jacques the Frenchman: Memories of the Gulag.
Bulaitis, J.
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Illiteracy Eradication Policies in the USSR in the 1950-1960s

open access: yesOriental 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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Managing authenticity and performance in Gulag tourism, Kazakhstan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
To date, there has been limited research concerning the methodology and approach to Gulag heritage and how it has been memorialised and commodified for tourism purposes.
Lennon, John J., Tiberghien, Guillaume
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Temi occidentali e loro variazioni russe nelle narrazioni letterarie sul Gulag: Ju. Margolin, V. Šalamov, Ju. Dombrovskij, A. Solženicyn [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Testimonies about the Gulag use several recurring motives. Inspired by narratives of Western culture and their Russian counterparts such as hell or the fragmented body, these motives constitute a metatext on the rupture that the experience of the camp ...
Jurgenson, Luba, Luba Jurgenson
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Memory about Lithuanians deportees in contemporary Russia

open access: yesGenocidas 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

open access: yesActa 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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‘Factory of invalids’: Mortality, disability and early release on medical grounds in GULAG, 1930-1955

open access: yes, 2020
This thesis forms the first detailed, scholarly account of the so-called ‘aktirovka’, or medical release practices in the GULAG in 1930-1955. It explores two interlinked lines of inquiry.
Nakonechnyi, Mikhail
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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 history of the Memorial Museum Perm–36: the experience of historiographical comprehension and museumification

open access: yesHistoria 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

open access: yesRUDN 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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