RT Book
T1 Belomor: criminality and creativity in Stalin's Gulag
T2 Myths and taboos in Russian culture
A1 Draskoczy, Julie
LA English
PP Boston, Mass.
PB Acad. Studies Press
YR 2014
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/794237886
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
NO Literaturangaben
CN HV9712.5.P286
SN 978-1-61811-288-0
SN 1-61811-288-0
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 Prisoners' writings
K1 Stalin, Josif Vissarionovič : 1878-1953 : Sowjetunion : Weißmeer-Ostsee-Kanal : Arbeitslager : Strafgefangener : Literatur : Geschichte 1931-1933