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Author Draskoczy, Julie S., author.

Title Belomor : criminality and creativity in Stalin's Gulag / Julie Draskoczy.

Publication Info. Brighton, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (250 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Myths and taboos in Russian culture
Myths and taboos in Russian culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-245) and index.
Contents Introduction: Born again: a new model of Soviet selfhood -- The factory of life -- The art of crime -- The symphony of labor -- The performance of identity -- The mapping of utopia.
Summary "Containing analyses of everything from prisoner poetry to album covers, Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin's Gulag moves beyond the simplistic good/evil paradigm that often accompanies Gulag scholarship. While acknowledging the normative power of Stalinism--an ethos so hegemonic it wanted to harness the very mechanisms of inspiration--the volume also recognizes the various loopholes offered by artistic expression. Perhaps the most infamous project of Stalin's first Five-Year Plan, the Belomor construction was riddled by paradox, above all the fact that it created a major waterway that was too shallow for large crafts. Even more significant, and sinister, is that the project won the backing of famous creative luminaries who enthusiastically professed the doctrine of self-fashioning. Belomor complicates our understanding of the Gulag by looking at both prisoner motivation and official response from multiple angles, thereby offering a more expansive vision of the labor camp and its connection to Stalinism"--Back cover
This book analyzed everything from Gulag prisoners' poetry to album covers under Stalin's power, and the various loopholes offered by artistic expression. The author examined both prisoner motivation and official response from multiple angles, and offered a more expansive vision of the labor camp and its connection to Stalinism.
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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode
Language English.
Subject Labor camps -- Soviet Union.
Prisoners' writings, Soviet -- History and criticism.
Prisoners as artists -- Soviet Union.
Prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Intellectual life.
Abris pour travailleurs -- URSS.
Artistes prisonniers -- URSS.
Prisonniers -- URSS -- Vie intellectuelle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
HISTORY -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Labor camps
Prisoners as artists
Prisoners -- Intellectual life
Prisoners' writings, Soviet
Soviet Union
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
In: Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN
Other Form: Print version: Draskoczy, Julie S. Belomor 1618112880 (OCoLC)869852194
ISBN 9781618112897 (electronic bk.)
1618112899 (electronic bk.)
9781618116949 (electronic bk.)
1618116940 (electronic bk.)
1618112880
9781618112880
9781618119346 (online)
1618119346
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AU@ 000066532880
AU@ 000069158699
CHNEW 001021650
CHVBK 529964465
DEBBG BV043039781
DEBBG BV044054057
DEBSZ 424584603
DEBSZ 449611159
GBVCP 1030561583
NZ1 15913088

 
    
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