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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…