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Return from the Archipelago Narratives of Gulag Survivors

by Leona Toker

  • ISBN: 9780253337870
  • ISBN10: 0253337879

Return from the Archipelago Narratives of Gulag Survivors

by Leona Toker

  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
  • Publish date: 11/01/2000
  • ISBN: 9780253337870
  • ISBN10: 0253337879
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Description: Return from the Archipelago is the first comprehensive historical survey and critical analysis of the vast body of narrative literature about the Soviet gulag. Leona Toker organizes and characterizes both fictional narratives and survivors' memoirs as she explores the changing hallmarks of the genre from the 1920s through the Gorbachev era. Toker reflects on the writings and testimonies that shed light on the veiled aspects of totalitarianism, dehumanization, and atrocity. Identifying key themes that recur in the narratives -- arrest, the stages of trial, imprisonment, labor camps, exile, escapes, special punishment, the role of chance, and deprivation -- Toker discusses the historical, political, and social contexts of these accounts and the ethical and aesthetic imperative they fulfill. Her readings provide extraordinary insight into prisoners' experiences of the Soviet penal system. Special attention is devoted to the writings of Varlam Shalamov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, but many works that are not well known in the West, especially those by women, are addressed. Consideration is also given to events that recently brought many memoirs to light years after they were written. A pioneering book on an important subject, Return from the Archipelago is an authoritative resource for scholars in Russian history and literature.
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333pp, octavo, hc w/jacket, pencil to the text, front cover is bowed, tight binding, clean boards, sharp corners, clean and complete jacket.
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333pp, octavo, hc w/jacket, pencil to the text, front cover is bowed, tight binding, clean boards, sharp corners, clean and complete jacket.
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Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 352 p.
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