Leona Toker
Return from the Archipelago
- ISBN 13:
- 9780253337870
- author:
- Leona Toker
- format:
- HardBack
- publisher:
- Indiana University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2000
- Pages:
- 352
- Dimensions:
- 23.39 x 15.6 x 2.06 centimetres
- Genre:
- History, Europe, Russia,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Return from the Archipelago: A Groundbreaking Study of Soviet Gulag Narratives This comprehensive historical survey and critical analysis explores the vast body of narrative literature about the Soviet gulag, spanning from the 1920s to the Gorbachev era. Leona Toker examines both fictional narratives and survivors' memoirs, shedding light on the changing hallmarks of the genre. Toker delves into the writings that reveal the veiled aspects of totalitarianism, dehumanization, and atrocity, identifying key themes such as arrest, trial, imprisonment, labor camps, exile, escapes, special punishment, chance, and deprivation. Her analysis provides extraordinary insight into the prisoners' experiences of the Soviet penal system. A pioneering work on an important subject, Return from the Archipelago is an authoritative resource for scholars in Russian history and literature, offering a nuanced understanding of this significant period in modern literary history.
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