"A Mind Purified by Suffering" : : Evgenia Ginzburg’s "Whirlwind" Memoirs /

"A Mind Purified by Suffering" : : Evgenia Ginzburg’s "Whirlwind" Memoirs / / ed. by Olga M. Cooke.

“A Mind Purified by Suffering": Evgenia Ginzburg’s "Whirlwind" Memoirs represents the first book on one of Russia’s most important classics of Gulag literature. Ginzburg’s memoirs of her eighteen-year ordeal through Stalinist concentration camps, Journey into the Whirlwind and Within...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
MitwirkendeR:
Artwińska, Anna,
Cooke, Olga M.,
Duda, Kathryn,
Heldt, Barbara,
Kolchevska, Natasha,
Komaromi, Ann,
Kopelev, Lev,
MacKinnon, Elaine,
Orlova, Raisa,
Popescu-Sandu, Oana,
Tołczyk, Dariusz,
Volynska, Rimma,
HerausgeberIn:
Cooke, Olga M.,
Place / Publishing House:Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Russian Thought in Context
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Physical Description:1 online resource (250 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Contributors
  • 1. A Cruel Journey of the Soul: The Initiation of Evgenia Ginzburg
  • 2. Mimetic Resistance in Evgenia Ginzburg’s Krutoi marshrut
  • 3. A Communist Woman in the Gulag: Gender, Ideology, and Limit-Experience in Ginzburg and Budzyńska
  • 4. My Son, My Self: Reevaluating a Culture of Vulnerability
  • 5. Vasily Aksenov and Evgenia Ginzburg in Magadan: Reconceiving Soviet Authorship through the Gulag Experience
  • 6. The Survival of the Sublime in a Universe of Malice: Testimonies by Evgenia Ginzburg and Other Gulag Writers
  • 7. “Up to Their Old Tricks Again? Taking Mothers from Their Children?” Evgenia Ginzburg as a Mother in the Stalinist Gulag
  • 8. Ethics, Play, and Poetry in the Interval: Evgenia Ginzburg’s Struggle to Survive in the Whirlwind
  • 9. A Winter Coat for Vasya: The Evgenia Ginzburg-Vasily Aksenov Correspondence (1948–1976)
  • 10. Evgenia Ginzburg at the End of Krutoi marshrut
  • 11. Interview with Vasily Aksenov
  • Photographs
  • Index

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