Gulag Fiction : Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin by Polly Jones perestroika a gregarious Russian Jewish immigrant

a gregarious Russian Jewish immigrant and his American-born

"A required read for anyone seeking to understand the remarkable cultural and linguistic diversity of today’s Ukraine" - Rory Finnin

Foreword by Sasha Dugdale

Zhadan employs both prose and poetry to address the disillusionment

being the right person

Gulag Fiction : Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin by Polly Jones perestroika a gregarious Russian Jewish immigrantThis 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