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Thereby offering a expansive vision of the labor camp and its connection to Stalinism Belomor Criminality and Creativity in Stalin s GulagA very repetitive look into art and creativity that existed in the USSR s GULAG prison at Belomor. Balamory cast The building of the Belomor White Sea Canal by prisoners who also rebuilt themselves in to Soviet brainwashed slaves The book is so repetitive it could have been 1 2 as long and still said everything it did Interesting viewpoint here but I think it is mostly speculation on the author s behalf. Belomorz zeus Did I mention it was repetitive Julie S Draskoczy

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Containing analyses of everything from prisoner poetry to album covers 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 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.