RT Book
T1 Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin’s Gulag
T2 Myths and Taboos in Russian Culture
A1 Draskozcy, Julie S.
LA English
PP Boston, MA
PB Academic Studies Press
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1778654258
AB 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
CN HV9712.5.P286
SN 9781618116949
K1 Labor camps : Soviet Union
K1 Prisoners' writings, Soviet : History and criticism
K1 Prisoners as artists : Soviet Union
K1 Prisoners : Soviet Union : Intellectual life
K1 History
K1 Abris pour travailleurs - URSS
K1 Artistes prisonniers - URSS
K1 Prisonniers - URSS - Vie intellectuelle
K1 POLITICAL SCIENCE - Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE - Human Services
K1 HISTORY - Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union
K1 HISTORY - Russia & the Former Soviet Union
K1 Labor camps
K1 Prisoners as artists
K1 Prisoners - Intellectual life
K1 Prisoners' writings, Soviet
K1 Criticism, interpretation, etc
K1 Histoire
K1 history (discipline)
K1 Soviet Union