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See no evil : literary cover-ups and discoveries of the Soviet camp experience

Author: Dariusz Tolczyk
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1999.
Series: Russian literature and thought.
Edition/Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Believing that human actions could be controlled by a totalitarian government, Stalin and his followers subjected millions of Soviet citizens to acts of state terrorism and imprisonment in labor camps. But this was not enough. Seeking to control human thought as well, Soviet authorities provided official words and images to legitimize the gulag, distort its moral nature, and even glorify its "necessary" violence.  Read more...
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Tolczyk, Dariusz.
See no evil.
New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1999
(OCoLC)607270285
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Dariusz Tolczyk
ISBN: 0300066082 9780300066081
OCLC Number: 40354783
Description: xxi, 361 pages ; 22 cm.
Contents: Fiction and fear: totalitarianism between word and experience --
From tragedy to festival: revolutionary violence and ethical experimentation in the 1920s --
The glory of the gulag: Stalin's camps as social medicine --
Hope beyond hope: Communist martyrology and the post-Stalinist thaw --
A sliver in the throat of power: Solzhenitsyn's One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich and the boundaries of the Soviet public discourse.
Series Title: Russian literature and thought.
Responsibility: Dariusz Tolczyk.

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This volume examines official Soviet concentration camp literature from the early 1920s through the mid-1960s. It probes the evolution of this literature, the totalitarian thinking that inspired it,  Read more...

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