While I am usually pleased by events which raise the public profile of the Gulag, I am distinctly less comfortable with its use for anti-Russian/anti-Soviet propaganda by neoconservative American think-tanks who have failed to notice that the Cold War ended twenty years ago, as in the case of the Heritage Foundation’s current exhibition of Nikolai […]
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Gulag art
Posted by Sarah Young on October 3, 2009
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2009/10/03/gulag-art/
Gulag Museums
Although my own work focuses on textual and genre analysis and of Russian narratives of imprisonment and exile, that field obviously doesn’t exist in a vacuum. From the point of view of understanding both the workings of the system and some of the experiences of those caught up in it, in addition to all the […]
Posted by Sarah Young on September 22, 2009
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2009/09/22/gulag-museums/
Gulag: Note to writers and editors (2)
The incorrect use of ‘Gulag’ pales into insignificance when compared to the remarkable inappropriateness with which it is employed at times. When I recently received a Google News Alert directing me to an article titled What you need to know to survive the airlines’ gulag, I innocently imagined I had reached the nadir of Gulag […]
Posted by Sarah Young on September 9, 2009
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2009/09/09/gulag-note-to-writers-and-editors-2/
Gulag: Note to writers and editors (1)
The other main focus of my current research is Gulag literature, particularly the short stories of Varlam Shalamov. I’ll write more about him soon, and post some of my work, but first I have a couple of observations to make on the use of the term ‘Gulag’ itself. The assimilation of foreign words into a language […]
Posted by Sarah Young on September 7, 2009
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2009/09/07/gulag-note-to-writers-and-editors-1/