RT Book
T1 Belomor: criminality and creativity in Stalin's Gulag
T2 Myths and taboos in Russian culture
A1 Draskoczy, Julie S.
LA English
PP Brighton, MA
PB Academic Studies Press
YR 2014
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1805881590
AB 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.
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 and its connection to Stalinism"--Back cover
AB 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
OP 250
NO Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-245) and index
CN HV9712.5.P286
SN 9781618112897
SN 1618112899
SN 9781618116949
SN 1618116940
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 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 Soviet Union
K1 Electronic books