Journal ArticleJournal of Disability and Religion · January 1, 2023
Discrimination and exclusion have been associated with mental health issues for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This mixed-methods study examines the impact of Reality Ministries (RM), a Christian community center open to all abili ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2011
The author of the following letter, Franciszka Dul, was probably arrested and sent to a labor camp after the Red Army invasion of Poland in 1939. The envelope records her address in the Akmolinsk oblast in Kazakhstan (Map 1), the site of many penal camps f ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2011
Valeriia Mikhailovna Gerlin was seven years old when her parents were arrested in 1937. She was an only child. Her father, Mikhail Gorb, was a former Socialist Revolutionary who had participated in terrorist acts in the revolutionary period. He joined the ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2011
This interview reveals much about life for a child of “ enemies of the people.” Both of Boris Faifman’s parents, Communist believers who chose to emigrate to the USSR, were arrested precisely because of their foreign origins. As was true for many children ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2011
Feliks Arkadievich Serebrov served four terms in the Soviet forced labor system, two in his youth, for criminal offenses, and two later in life, in connection with his participation in the human rights movement. As a result, he saw more of the Gulag than m ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2011
The scope of the Gulag—the Soviet system of incarceration and internal exile—is immense yet relatively little known. Millions of people died in the Gulag, and millions more had their lives radically disrupted by arrest, exile, or hard labor in camps or in ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2011
Born in 1928, Valentin Tikhonovich Muravskii has a life story that reflects many of the most tragic episodes in twentieth-century Russian history. His father, Tikhon Romanovich Muravskii-Kocherga, a senior inspector for the Leningrad radio broadcasting sys ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2011
The letter below is one of several hundred contained in the archives of the Anders Army, the Polish army formed in the USSR as a result of the Sikorskii-Maiskii Pact of July 30, 1941. These letters—many of them unopened—were written by Poles deported font ...
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Journal ArticleKritika · 2011
An article detailing the intricacies of filming Gulag survivors and the different considerations, given that remembering and telling one's Gulag experiences has been dangerous for over 70 years. Gulag survivors both want and don't want to be filmed; there ...
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Journal ArticleSlavic Review · 2010
Much trauma theory developed in western contexts argues that it is essential for trauma survivors to compose and share their narratives in a supportive atmosphere. This option was not open to Gulag survivors as they risked rearrest or harm to their familie ...
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Journal ArticleGulag Studies · 2009
In this article, I examine issues related to cultural memory, gender, oral history and the Gulag through comparing two very different interviews. One person became the–often military–hero of every story; the other retreated into herself. In close readings ...
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Chapter · January 2009
This article examines issues of memory through a close reading of two of my oral history interviews with Gulag survivors and also suggests how gender inflects narration and memory in Gulag accounts. While this essay was translated into Finnish, a revision ...
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Journal ArticleMortality · May 2007
Jehanne Gheith’s essay comes from a larger project of life history interviews with Gulag survivors which she conducted over the course of several years (multiple interviews with each person) in which she explores the Gulag as cultural haunting. The Gulag i ...
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Book · December 1, 2004
Though among the most prominent writers in Russia in the mid nineteenth century, Evgeniia Tur (1815 92) and V. Krestovskii (1820? 89) are now little known. By looking in depth at these writers, their work, and their historical and aesthetic significance, J ...
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