Solženicyn and Wisdom by Giuseppe Ghini

“…Proverbs in Solženicyn’s works are not mere expression of Russian folklore; they reveal God’s order of the world and God’s guidance of human lives. The Gulag is not only a Soviet form of punishment, but also an extraordinary school of life and of wisdom. …”
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DRAMA PERSECUȚIEI MARTORILOR LUI IEHOVA DIN RSS MOLDOVENEASCĂ ÎN MEMORIA VICTIMELOR DEPORTĂRII by USM ADMIN

“…Cuvinte-cheie: Republica Sovietică Socialistă Moldovenească, statul sovietic, Gulag, Martorii lui Iehova, persecuție. DOI: https://doi.org/10.59295/sum4(174)2023_07 …”
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Tat[o]ueur : pouvoirs du tatouage dans Little Tulip, de Jerome Charyn et François Boucq by Sophie Vallas

“…This graphic novel moves back and forth between the USSR of the 1940s and 1950s and New York City in the 1970s to tell the story of Paul, a US-born tattoo artist who spent his childhood in a Gulag colony in Siberia where, as Pavel, he learnt his craft. …”
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Modernidad y barbarie en el pensamiento de C. G. Jung by José Ezcurdia

“…Estas nociones y dicha crítica constituyen el andamiaje conceptual a partir del cual Jung da cuenta de una modernidad que en sus versiones socialista, comunista y capitalista, ha dado lugar a hechos abominables como los alemanes campos de concentración, el Gulag soviético y la bomba atómica.…”
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CAMP DAILY ROUTINE OF UKRAINIAN PROFESSORS-HUMANITARIANS: BAMLAG by Oleksandr Bon

“…The survival strategies at GULAG’s extreme conditions had many differences and yet had common features. …”
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Precedent Names from Russian Literature in English-Language Cartoon by Elena V. Dziuba, Svetlana A. Eremina, Yulia V. Rogozinnikova

“…The particular focus is made on the names of Russian writers and poets (Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn), and the titles of Russian-language literary works featured in American caricature (War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, The Karamazov Brothers, Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters and The GULAG Archipelago). Methodologically, the study is based on cognitive, linguo-semiotic, linguo-axiological, and contextual analysis. …”
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The Phenomenon of Post-Memory and Its Aesthetics on the Example of Pyotr Belov’s “Anti-Stalinist Cycle” by Podlednov Denis D., Kazantseva Elena D.

“…The paintings presented at the exhibition were later referred to the “anti-Stalinist cycle”. In 2020, the GULAG History Museum (Moscow) accepted these paintings into the collection and organized the exhibition The Queue for the Truth. …”
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Florensky by Gaspare Mura

“…The author underlines that, more than his numerous scientific, philosophical, theological, mystical works, his most important and imperishable message is the heroic elevation of his Christian testimony in the gulag. Florensky transfigures the “night” with the achievement of a higher spiritual dimension, which he calls “the art of gratuitousness”, of the pure disinterested gift of oneself to God and others, that gratuitousness which is synonymous with grace and beauty. …”
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White crematory through the eyes of a Cracow journalist. The Book on Kolyma by Anatol Krakowiecki by Monika Najdowska

“…The article introduces a profile of the author and of the most significant works of the Polish Gulag literature – its perception, contents and ideological message.…”
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La “religione della libertà” di Croce nella biografia di Gustaw Herling by Marta Herling

“…The path leading Gustaw Herling to the Soviet gulag and to his pilgrimage as soldier, exile and witness to totalitarianism has its symbolic prologue in Herling reading of Croce’s Storia d’Europa during the summer of 1939. …”
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THE CULTURAL CONCEPT OF «SOCIALIST LABOUR» AND ITS CONTENT IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY (V. SHALAMOV, S. DOVLATOV, V. MAKSIMOV) by L. S. Starikova

“…The analysis reveals the discrepancy in understanding of labour in the Soviet ethics and in the image of the Soviet reality, represented by the Gulag authorities. Labour camp prose and its writers embody the absurdity of the existing Soviet reality and the individual’s position in itin the image of labour.…”
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Representing Experience in Concentration Camps: A Case in Universal Literature by Javier SÁNCHEZ ZAPATERO

“…The paper is structured methodologically on the analysis of both testimony and literature texts written by victims of historical events such as the Soviet Gulag, french and Nazist concentration camps, with the aim of describing the common formal traits in this type of texts.…”
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Across the Divide by Charlotte Dowling

“…In women’s memoirs of the Gulag and Soviet prison system, walls are not represented in the entirely negative way one might expect. …”
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The Experience of Overcoming of Trauma Caused by Getting Acquainted with Archival Investigative Case of Repressed Relative by Shemanova N.A.

“…The difference between experiences of relatives of the Gulag victims and relatives of victims of other historical events or disasters is examined. …”
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A Repression of Czechoslovak Citizens in the USSR by Hornik Jan

“…One of the groups consist of the people who in the period of 1939-1942 sought refuge in the USSR from German or Hungarian Nazism, or who wanted to actively fight against it. They ended up in the Gulag, from which they were freed during an amnesty linked to the creation of a Czechoslovak unit in the USSR. …”
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CRITICAL CONTROVERSY WITH A.I. SOLZHENITSYN AT THE PAGES OF “SYNTAX” by A V Denisenko

“…The article presents a wide range of points of view of the critics of “Syntax” - from those expressed sharp criticism to the author of “The Archipelago Gulag”, reproaches against his “authoritarianism” to the recognition of relative rightness of “Vermont exile”.…”
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Contos de Kolimá by Davi Lopes Villaça

“…Tendo realizado algumas considerações gerais sobre a experiência de Chalámov no gulag, tal como retratada em sua obra, proponho, a partir da análise de dois de seus contos, presentes no primeiro volume da série Contos de Kolimá, refletir a respeito da relação do autor com a literatura e a escrita.…”
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The Concept of the 'New Soviet Man' As a Eugenic Project: Eugenics in Soviet Russia after World War II by Filip Bardziński

“…Through referring to a number of chosen – both theoretical (classic Marxist works) and practical (chosen aspects of Soviet science and internal politics) – issues and cases, the concept of the 'new Soviet man' is being confronted with an original reading of eugenics, understood in neo-Lamarckian terms of direct shaping human beings through environmental conditions (comprehending the GULag system of labour camps, pseudo-medical experiments and other) and intergenerational transfer (through inheritance) of acquired traits.…”
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News by Patrizia Deotto, Alexei Kholikov, Francesca Lazzarin, Andrea Gullotta

“…Ivan Čistjakov, Diario di un guardiano del Gulag, Bruno Mondadori, Milano, 2012,  234 pp.…”
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In a Wonderland They Lie? Today’s Russia: A Testimony of the New Soviet Enthusiasm in the 1930s by August Cesarec by Ivana Peruško

“…Have the memories of the horrors and fears of the Great Terror and the Gulag era erased the memory of the enthusiastic atmosphere and happiness of the Soviet Golden Age? …”
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