LEADER 03359nam 2200649 450 001 9910251404303321 005 20211012012357.0 010 $a1-61811-694-0 010 $a1-61811-289-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9781618116949 035 $a(CKB)3710000000088001 035 $a(EBL)3110546 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001153368 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11643584 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001153368 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11150131 035 $a(PQKB)11653257 035 $a(DE-B1597)540902 035 $a(OCoLC)1135597572 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781618116949 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3110546 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10837758 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL576002 035 $a(OCoLC)873807699 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3110546 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000088001 100 $a20140221d2014 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBelomor $ecriminality and creativity in Stalin's Gulag /$fJulie Draskoczy 210 1$aBoston :$cAcademic Studies Press,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (250 p.) 225 0 $aMyths and Taboos in Russian Culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-61811-288-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tTable of Contents --$tAcknowledgments --$tA Note on the Text --$tPreface --$tIntroduction. Born Again: A New Model of Soviet Selfhood --$tI. The Factory of Life --$tII. The Art of Crime --$tIII. The Symphony of Labor --$tIV. The Performance of Identity --$tV. The Mapping of Utopia --$tEpilogue --$tList of Figures --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aContaining 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. 606 $aLabor camps$zSoviet Union 606 $aPrisoners' writings 615 0$aLabor camps 615 0$aPrisoners' writings. 676 $a361 686 $a2,1$2ssgn 686 $a7,41$2ssgn 700 $aDraskoczy$b Julie$0879560 712 02$aNational Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program$4fnd$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fnd 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910251404303321 996 $aBelomor$91964088 997 $aUNINA