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Gulag Fiction: Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin

Gulag Fiction: Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin

Jones, Polly

Hardcover

Series: Russian Shorts

Literary CriticismGeneral World HistoryRussian History

ISBN10: 1350250392
ISBN13: 9781350250390
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Nov 14 2024
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

This unique exploration of Russian prose fiction about the Soviet labour camp system since the Stalin era compares representations of identity, ethics and memory across the corpus.

The Soviet labour camp system, or Gulag, was a highly complex network of different types of penal institutions, scattered across the vast Soviet territory and affecting millions of Soviet citizens directly and indirectly. As Gulag Fiction shows, its legacies remain palpable today, though survivors of the camps are now increasingly scarce, and successive Soviet and post-Soviet leaders have been reluctant to authorise a full working through of the Gulag past. This is the first book to compare Soviet, samizdat and post-Soviet literary prose about the Gulag as penal system, carceral experience and traumatic memory. Polly Jones analyses prose texts from across the 20th and 21st centuries through the prism of key themes in contemporary Soviet historiography and Holocaust literature scholarship: selfhood and survival; perpetration and responsibility; memory and post-memory.

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