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(Hi-)Stories of the Gulag

Fiction and Reality

Herausgeber: Fischer von Weikersthal, Felicitas | Thaidigsmann, Karoline

Akademiekonferenzen, Bd. 21

2016

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Abstract

After decades of being concealed and downplayed, the Soviet Gulag system is gradually gaining attention. The opening of archives following the fall of the Soviet Union, new editions of testimonial literature, and new media representations have fostered an increased interest in research into the Subject. Moreover, popular culture itself has embraced the Gulag. Thus, old and new representations in cultural media, as well as in academic research, all compete in narrating and interpreting the history of the Gulag. Which of these stories from and about the Gulag form our current understanding of the Soviet forced labor camps? And where can we situate them within the dichotomous field of facticity and fictitiousness? By bringing together international researchers from historical sciences, literary and cultural studies, film studies, and musicology to analyze the validity and significance of existing Gulag narratives and discuss their impact on the public’s perception, the volume contributes to a more thorough understanding of this complex Subject.

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Cover C
Title Page iii
Copyright iv
Contents v
Introduction. Felicitas Fischer von Weikersthal, Karoline Thaidigsmann 9
Galina IVANOVA, Competing Realities: Statistics, Memoirs and the History of the Gulag [Die Gulag-Statistiken im Spiegel von Archivmaterialien und Memoiren] 21
Dan HEALEY, “Dramatological” Trauma in the Gulag. Malingering, Self-Inflicted Injuries and the Prisoner-Patient 37
Friedrich GEIGER, Music in the Recollections of Political Gulag Prisoners 63
Felicitas Fischer VON WEIKERSTHAL, Appearance and Reality. Nazi Germany and Gulag-Memoirs 75
Manuela PUTZ, „Auf dem Weg nach vorne. Polithäftlinge sind wir“. Politische Gefangenschaft, transnationale Netzwerke und Identitätskonstruktionen Andersdenkender in der Sowjetunion der 1960er bis 1980er Jahre 101
Zuzanna BOGUMIŁ, The Solovetski Islands and Butovo as two “Russian Golgothas”. New Martyrdom as a Means to Understand Soviet Repression 133
Anne HARTMANN, Fiction and Reality: Literary Testimonies Between Document and Fictionalization Erschöpft und usurpiert. Plädoyer für ein erweitertes Konzept von Gulag-Literatur 159
Andrea GULLOTTA, Gulag Poetry. An Almost Unexplored Field of Research 175
Leona TOKER, Rereading Varlam Shalamov’s Stories June and May. Four Kinds of Knowledge 193
Alfred GALL, Disconcerting Concision. Laconism as Principle of Text Organization – Leo Lipski (Dzień i noc) and Lev Konson (Kratkie povesti) 205
Łukasz Neca, Fiktive Wirklichkeiten – wirkliche Fiktionen. Gustaw Herling-Grudzinskis Inny swiat und Wlodzimierz Odojewskis Zabezpieczanie sladów 219
Renate LACHMANN, Document or Fiction? Karlo Štajner and Danilo Kiš 237
Karoline THAIDIGSMANN, Inventing the Gulag: Approaches in Contemporary Literature, Music and Film Visitors to the Gulag. Soviet Forced Labor in Contemporary Western Fiction for Adult and Young Readers 255
Nina A. FRIEß, “From Russia with Blood”. Stalinist Repression and the Gulag in Contemporary Crime Fiction 281
Oksana BULGAKOWA, Die filmische Darstellung von Körperlichkeit in extremen Situationen 303
Irina GRADINARI, Der Soldat als Befreier? Zur Stalinismus-Kritik in der Serie Poslednij boj majora Pugaceva 323
Inna KLAUSE, Russkij šanson. Geschichte(n) aus dem Gulag oder populäre Verklärung der Historie? 353
Notes on Contributors 371
Index 375