Gulag Fiction : Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin by Polly Jones travel writing Among the greatest works of

Among the greatest works of literature by a Russian woman writer

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Magisterial and gripping" - Catherine Belton

Kravchenko situates this issue in the city of Kharkiv and Kharkiv University as both real and imagined markers of the borderland

this collection features a diverse range of styles and voices

Gulag Fiction : Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin by Polly Jones travel writing Among the greatest works ofThis unique exploration of Russian prose fiction about the Soviet labour camp system since the Stalin era compares representations of identity, ethics and memory across the corpus. The Soviet labour camp system, or Gulag, was a highly complex network of different types of penal institutions, scattered across the vast Soviet territory and affecting millions of Soviet citizens directly and indirectly. As Gulag Fiction shows, its legacies remain palpable