"The notorious Soviet Gulag gets a radical reinterpretation in this remarkable work of cutting-edge history. By examining the history of Vorkuta, an Arctic coal-mining outpost established in the 1930s as a prison camp complex, Alan Barenberg's insightful study tests the idea tha…
Introduction -- Ideology, leadership and capitalism -- The impact of industrialization -- The new global economy -- The profit problem -- Solving the profit riddle -- The social case against capitalism -- Liberating the gulag -- Conclusion
Theatre in the Solovki prison camp
"Featuring over 130 drawings and texts by Danzig Baldaev--author of the acclaimed Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I, II, III--this book describes the history, horror and peculiarities of the Gulag system from its inception in 1918. Baldaev's work as a prison guard a…
Storie di uomini giusti nel Gulag
by Nissim, Gabriele, Bonner-Sacharova, Elena
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Richard Tempest examines Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's evolution as a literary artist from his early autobiographical novel Love the Revolution to the experimental mega-saga The Red Wheel, and beyond. Tempest shows how this author gives his characters a presence so textured that we c…
This dissertation offers a local study of the Soviet Union's vast system of forced labor concentration camps and internal exile, the Gulag, in the Karaganda region of central Kazakhstan from the early 1930s when the Gulag arose as a mass social institution to the post-Stalin era…
My dissertation traces the life of Japanese oil painter Kazuki Yasuo (1911-1974). One of postwar Japan’s most significant oil painters, he is not well-represented in English Language scholarship on the period, a lacuna this dissertation seeks to help rectify. The introduction pr…
