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Acta 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
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Resisting Dehumanization: Female Experience of Stalin’s Gulag
, 2021 Im Buch Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag werden die Erlebnisse der weiblichen ukrainischen politischen Gulag-Häftlinge (1939–1956) untersucht. Im Mittelpunkt der Studie stehen nicht die institutionellen Aspekte, sondern die individuellen
Tarku, Iryna
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)
Modern 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
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‘Malenkey Robot’ in the Carpathian Basin, in Hungary – Data, Facts, Interpretations, Connections
Acta 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
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Nations 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
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The Russian Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article brings together theories of history and filmic realism to analyze the representation of the provinces in Nataliia Meshchaninova’s The Hope Factory (Kombinat “Nadezhda,” 2014) and Andrei Zviagintsev’s Leviathan (Leviafan, 2014). It argues that these two films share a typically realist attitude of respect toward the profilmic in ...
Daria Ezerova
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, 2017 Memoirs and works of fiction that describe the Stalinist Gulag often depict labor camps as entirely cut off from the rest of Soviet society. In fact, however, many prisoners corresponded at least sporadically with relatives either through the official ...
Arsenii Formakov
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Krakowskie 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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Caminhadas longas, jornadas incríveis: fantasias populares de fuga e de regresso a casa
Forma 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
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Avtobiografija, 2014 This paper is focused on the works of the lesser known Russian avant-guard writer Pavel Ulitin (1918-1986) – perhaps the most radical author of Russian prose of the second half of the 20th century.
Ilya Kukulin
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