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The Martyrdom of Nadezhda Kurchenko: Soviet Hero Cults and the Spiritual Turn in Late Socialism
The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 69-87, January 2026.Abstract This article argues that the spiritual turn in Soviet atheism under Brezhnev provided a meaningful solution to the problems of producing heroes when self‐sacrificing martyrs were losing their appeal. To support this claim, I examine the story of Nadezhda Kurchenko, a nineteen‐year‐old flight attendant killed by two hijackers on an Aeroflot ...
Steven E. Harris
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Child Mortality and Disease in Karlag, 1941: A Comparison of Prisoners’ and Free Workers’ Children
Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic StudiesThe article analyses archived statistical data illustrating mortality rates for the children of female prisoners, as well as the children of free labourers in Karlag in 1941.
Zauresh Saktaganova +2 more
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Hungarian Cultural Studies, 2018 My paper elaborates Herta Müller’s Gulag novel, Atemschaukel (2009; published in English under the title of The Hunger Angel in 2012), in the historical, political and ethical contexts of twentieth-century forced migrations by placing the novel among ...
Ernő Csongor Kiss
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The Courtroom Sketch: Journalism and Justice in Literaturnaia gazeta
The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 52-68, January 2026.Abstract In the decades following Stalin’s death, the newspaper Literaturnaia gazeta shaped Soviet legal culture through the genre of the courtroom sketch (sudebnyi ocherk), a blend of fact‐based reportage, personal memoir, literary narration, and social commentary aimed at the task of working through thorny questions of morality and legality.
Rebecca Reich
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The Last Word: The Prattling, Tattling Parrots of Popular Lore
The Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 58, Issue 6, Page 290-299, December 2025.ABSTRACT Garrulous parrots appear in a wide array of pop culture forms—from urban legends, television sitcoms, and advertising, to comics, pulp detective fiction, and jokes (naming a few). The birds can be helpful, clever agents; but more often they are mischief makers challenging social norms. Among the pandemonium of parrots in expressive culture, we
Greg Kelley
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The Potential for Dark Tourism in Kazakhstan: An Overview of the Former Concentration Camps
Tourism and HospitalityThe concept of dark tourism has attracted considerable attention in recent years. The studies in this field examine the convergence of tourism and morbidity.
Aigerim Assylkhanova +5 more
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Communism’s “Bright Past”: Loyalty to the Party despite the Gulag
Culture & History Digital Journal, 2014 The Soviet Gulag has joined the tragic annals of what has been described as “man’s inhumanity to man”. Yet some prisoners, many of whom were falsely convicted, emerged from the experience maintaining their loyalty to the system of government that was ...
Nanci Adler
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Toward an Austro‐Libertarian Sociology
The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Volume 84, Issue 5, Page 781-796, November 2025.ABSTRACT Interventionism has become a defining feature of modern societies, shaping individual behavior, economic activity, and social norms through state regulations, subsidies, and collectivist ideologies. Despite its profound impact, sociology has largely failed to critically examine the dynamics of interventionism from a praxeological standpoint in
Alexis Sémanne
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Lecciones del Archipiélago Gulag
Trans-pasando Fronteras, 2013 Reseña del siguiente libro:SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr (2007). El Archipiélago Gulag (Josep M. Güel y Enrique Fernández Vemet, trad.). Edición electrónica.
Carlos Bello Gándara +1 more
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