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See No Evil

Literary Cover-Ups and Discoveries of the Soviet Camp Experience

By: Dariusz Tolczyk

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Hardcover | 5 October 1999 | Edition Number 1

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Believing that human actions could be controlled by a totalitarian government, Stalin and his followers subjected millions of Soviet citizens to acts of state terrorism and imprisonment in labor camps. But this was not enough. Seeking to control human thought as well, Soviet authorities provided official words and images to legitimize the gulag, distort its moral nature, and even glorify its "necessary" violence. This fascinating book is the first in English to examine official Soviet concentration camp literature from the early 1920s through the mid-1960s. Dariusz Tolczyk probes the evolution of this literature, the totalitarian thinking that inspired it, and the scandalous role played by Russian literary intellectuals who collaborated in its creation.

The author considers how Soviet novelists and poets in the 1920s dealt with the Leninist notion that ethics is entirely utilitarian and relative; analyzes the official glorification of the gulag in the early 1930s in such works as White Sea Canal, a composite volume by 36 famous authors praising the use of slave labor; and examines why the subject of the camps became taboo from 1937 to the Khrushchevian thaw of the early 1960s. Tolczyk also provides a masterful account of the problem posed for Soviet censors by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and shows how the failure of the Soviet regime to come to terms with the ethical legacy of the gulag signaled the decline of the totalitarian project.

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History European History Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1900 to Current Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 Politics & Government Education

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Fiction and Fear: Totalitarianism between Word and Experience	p. 1
From Tragedy to Festival: Revolutionary Violence and Ethical Experimentation in the 1920s	p. 58
The Glory of the Gulag: Stalin's Camps as Social Medicine	p. 93
Hope Beyond Hope: Communist Martyrology and the Post-Stalinist Thaw	p. 184
A Sliver in the Throat of Power: Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and the Boundaries of the Soviet Public Discourse	p. 253
Notes	p. 311
Index	p. 349
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