Plamper's article brilliantly exposes the incoherence of Foucault's thinking on the
Gulag and the basic hypocrisy of his position as someone who enjoyed all the legal protections of individual rights afforded by the French bourgeois liberal state and yet was fundamentally unable to see how the absence of those protections made Soviet rule what it was.
An estimated nine out of every 10 prisoners died in the
gulags, including many artists and intellectuals.
Klause's table of sixty-eight composers in the
Gulag (pp.
Below I explore how the
Gulag experience interpreted in tandem with a popular Lithuanian religious image brings a new note to the understanding of Christ.
The
gulag is a network of labor camps that houses 150,000 to 200,000 prisoners.
She wrote before other
GULAG accounts circulated illegally in manuscript form.
Then, in 2006, a friend put me in touch with Louis Hutchins, a curator of the National Parks Service who was staging the first major exhibition on the
Gulag to be presented to the American public in collaboration with Russian and other agencies.
Behind the
gulag walls, Janusz meets Khabarov (Mark Strong), who claims that escape is possible if they head south, using the elements to cover their tracks.
During Ermolaev's long life, his work involved a range of related academic disciplines from geology to geophysics and geochemistry and was conducted both out in the field in the far North, in a university setting, and in the
GULAG prison camp system following his re-arrest in 1940.
A freelance translator collects and provides historical context on personal narratives drawn from Deti Gulaga (Children of the
Gulag), compiled/edited by Semyon Vilenssky, founder of a Moscow-based organization of prison camp survivors.