Gulag Fiction: Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin

by Polly Jones

This unique exploration of Russian prose fiction about the Soviet labour camp system since the Stalin era compares representations of identity, ethics and memory across the corpus.

The Soviet labour camp system, or Gulag, was a highly complex network of different types of penal institutions, scattered across the vast Soviet territory and affecting millions of Soviet citizens directly and indirectly. As Gulag Fictionshows, its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350250392
• ISBN13: 9781350250390
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"