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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 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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Secrecy, Fear and Transaction Costs: The Business of Soviet Forced Labour in the Early Cold War [PDF]
In 1949 the Cold War was picking up momentum. The Soviet state had entered its most secretive phase. The official rationale of secrecy was defense against external enemies.
Harrison, Mark
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Trauma and self in the Soviet context: remarks on Gulag writings [PDF]
, 2012 The present paper is a first reflection on the ideal approaches to study the corpus of lagernaia memuaristika. The author proposes the novel concept of ‘Soviet repression literature’ as a new key concept to study the whole corpus of literature related to
Gullotta, Andrea
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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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Captive Body, Free Mind: Euphrosinia Kersnovskaia, the Gulag, and Art Under Oppression [PDF]
, 2017 This paper examines the art of Euphrosinia Kersnovskaia (1907-1994) as it relates to both the larger experience and narrative of the Soviet Gulag and to the survival of the artist.
Waters, Laura G.
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Knowing the Soviet Union: the historical dimension [PDF]
, 1989 This repository item contains a single article of the Publication Series, papers in areas of particular scholarly interest published from 1989 to 1996 by the Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy.
Conquest, Robert
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“Land der Tränen”: Sibirien als narrativer Raum in der Verbannungs- und Gulagliteratur [PDF]
, 2011 This article highlights the historical and literary aspects of exile and punishment as a formative element in the spatial concept of Russian and Soviet empire-building.
Stolberg, Eva-Maria
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