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Andrea Gullotta
Ot redaktorov zhurnala "Avtobiografiia": Russkie avtobiograficheskie teksty: vzgliad s Zapada (neskolko primerov iz opyta raboty zhurnala "Avtobiografiia")
The article highlights issues related to a/b studies on Russian text when approached from a western perspective
O gulag e a literatura de gulag: um balanço das pesquisas
Resumo: Este artigo apresenta um panorama dos debates historiográficos, antigos e recentes, sobre a literatura produzida no complexo de campos de concentração soviéticos (o "gulag"). São examinados livros, congressos, instituições de pesquisa e organizações de memória dedicadas ao tema. O texto é concluído pela constatação da escassez de pesquisas voltadas às especificidades da literatura do gulag. Abstract: This paper presents an overview of recent and old debates on the literature created in Soviet concentration camp complexes (gulags), and examines books, conferences, research institutions and memory organizations dedicated to the matter. The article concludes with the observation that s…
La nourriture dans la prose des camps: l'example du Pain de Chalamov
The article provides an analysis of representations of food in Gulag literature and then focuses on the image of bread in Shalamov's Kolyma Tales
Intellectual Life and Literature at Solovki 1923-1930: The Paris of the Northern Concentration Camps
In 1923, the Soviet state decided to create a prison camp on the Solovki archipelago, the site of a former monastery. It became the laboratory of the Gulag, where the techniques of labour-camp exploitation were developed. Prisoners died by the hundreds both within the walls of the monastery and in the frozen forests beyond. Yet the camp's activities in cultural re-education were surprisingly extensive. With the connivance of part of the administration, Solovki became a unique cultural citadel, where the values of a dying intelligentsia were reflected in the works and words of the prisoners, who numbered not only poets and actors but also figures such as the revered Russian scholar Dmitrii L…
More than a cat: Reflections on Shalamov’s and Solzhenitsyn’s writings through the perspective of trauma studies
The article presents the first larger study of the impact of trauma on Gulag writings
“I feel, I know, I am immortal”: literary works in the newspapers of Soviet prisons and camps in the 1920s
Abstract The present article sheds new light on the newspapers and other publications of the Soviet prison camps in the 1920s and early 1930s. The first part reconstructs the institutional dynamics that brought about the publication of newspapers, wall newspapers and other periodicals produced inside the camps. The article then focuses on a selection of literary works published by inmates and on the importance of Soviet newspapers published in places of detention as a source for the study not only of the history of the Gulag, but also of its culture and literature.
Religious thought and experience in the prison camps
The development of religious thought has often been marked by discord and conflicts be tween religions (and/or individual religious thinkers) and the State, which at times led to the repression of individuals and or groups of people united by the same confession. The Russian case is fully in line with this unfortunate tradition: from Nikon’s schism to the re pression against all religions under the Soviet regime, Russian religious thought has of ten developed in repressive conditions. However, the Russian case has one distinguishing feature, that is, the extensive use of prison camps by Russian and Soviet authorities from the nineteenth century onwards, which has had a direct effect on some…