Title Belomor : Criminality and Creativity in Stalin's Gulag / Julie Draskoczy.

Publication Info.	Brighton, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2014]
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Description	1 online resource (250 pages) : illustrations.
Series	Myths and taboos in Russian culture
	Myths and taboos in Russian culture.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-245) and index.
Contents	Introduction: Born again: a new model of Soviet selfhood -- The factory of life -- The art of crime -- The symphony of labor -- The performance of identity -- The mapping of utopia.
Summary	"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.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Labor camps -- Soviet Union.
	Prisoners' writings, Soviet -- History and criticism.
	Prisoners as artists -- Soviet Union.
	Prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Intellectual life.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
	Labor camps. (OCoLC)fst00989882
	Prisoners as artists. (OCoLC)fst01077220
	Prisoners -- Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst01077151
	Prisoners' writings, Soviet. (OCoLC)fst01077309
	Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
	HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Other Form:	Print version: Draskoczy, Julie S. Belomor 1618112880 (OCoLC)869852194
ISBN	9781618112897 (electronic bk.)
	1618112899 (electronic bk.)
	9781618116949 (electronic bk.)
	1618116940 (electronic bk.)
	1618112880
	9781618112880

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