Gulag Fiction : Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin by Polly Jones travel writing describing the other side in

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Entrepreneurship is a principled way of seeing the world

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these works reveal the full range of émigré writing and are presented here in masterly translations by Bryan Karetnyk and others

Magisterial and gripping" - Catherine Belton

Gulag Fiction : Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin by Polly Jones travel writing describing the other side inThis 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 Fiction shows, its legacies remain palpable