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Intellectual life and literature at Solovki 1923-1930 : the Paris of the northern concentration camps

Title: Intellectual life and literature at Solovki 1923-1930 : the Paris of the northern concentration camps / Andrea Gullotta.
Author: Gullotta, Andrea
Publication: Cambridge : Legenda, Modern Humanities Research Association, 2018.

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Description

ix, 359 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

In 1923, the Soviet state decided to create a prison camp on the Solovki archipelago, the site of a former monastery. It became the laboratory of the Gulag, where the techniques of labour-camp exploitation were developed. Prisoners died by the hundreds both within the walls of the monastery and in the frozen forests beyond. Yet the camp's activities in cultural re-education were surprisingly extensive. With the connivance of part of the administration, Solovki became a unique cultural citadel, where the values of a dying intelligentsia were reflected in the works and words of the prisoners, who numbered not only poets and actors but also figures such as the revered Russian scholar Dmitrii Likhachev (1906-99). Andrea Gullotta's thoroughly documented study reconstructs the cultural history of the camp and provides an in-depth analysis of the literary works published in the press of the Solovki camp up until 1930, thus changing the current research frame on Gulag literature and shedding light on the extraordinary fight of an isolated group of men for intellectual freedom. --

Alternative Title

Paris of the northern concentration camps

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Genre/Form

Biographies
History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-353) and index.

ISBN

9781781886915
1781886911

LCCN

2018439666

OCLC

on1030593001
1030593001
SCSB-9038771

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Princeton University Library