TY  - BOOK
AU  - Draskozcy, Julie S.
AB  - Containing 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.
DO  - 10.2307/j.ctt1zxsjv1
ID  - OAPEN ID: 641414
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 873807699
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30928
KW  - History
KW  - History
KW  - Collage
KW  - Gulag
KW  - Joseph Stalin
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - White Sea–Baltic Canal
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30928/1/641414.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30928/1/641414.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30647
PB  - Academic Studies Press
PP  - Boston, MA
PY  - 2014-01-21
SN  - 9781618116949;9781618119346
TI  - Belomor : Criminality and Creativity in Stalin’s Gulag
ER  - 
