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Title of the article: |
“YES, SONYUSHKA, AND SAY WHAT YOU WILL, I `M ONLY LIVING ON YOUR LETTERS...”: DAILY LIFE IN CAMP AND SURVIVAL STRATEGY OF N. P. ANTSIFEROVA |
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Author(s): |
Tatiana M. Polyanskaya |
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Information about the author/authors |
Tatiana M. Polyanskaya — PhD in History, Senior Research Associate, The GULAG History State Museum, 1st Samotechny line, 9, bldg. 1, 127473 Moscow, Russia. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9189-7877. E-mail: polyanskaya@gmig.ru |
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Section |
Reviews |
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Year |
2022 |
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Volume |
Vol. 63 |
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Pages |
pp. 354–359 |
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Received |
19.10.2021 |
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Approved after reviewing |
January 20, 2022 |
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Date of publication |
March 28, 2022 |
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DOI: |
https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2022-63-354-359 |
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Index UDK |
821.161.1.0 |
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Index BBK |
83.3(2Рос=Рус)6 |
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Abstract |
Camp letters are one of the most objective sources in the study of the GULAG prisoners’ everyday life. On the basis of specific quotations from N.P. Antsiferov's letters, the working and living conditions of the camp population of the Baikal-Amur ITL in the late 1930s are considered; Antsiferov's testimonies are compared with the official documentation of the NKVD and the GULAG. The author of the article compares the way of thinking of Nikolai Antsiferov and Varlam Shalamov, as one of the most popular writers about the life of prisoners in correctional labor camps. The article for the first time gives an assessment of the N.P. Antsiferov's epistolary heritage in the study of the history of the GULAG and political repression during the years of Stalin's rule. |
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Keywords |
GULAG, prisoners, repression, daily life in camp, camp society, microhistory, corrective-labor camp, forced labor, epistolary. |
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References |
1 Antsiferov N. P. Iz dum o bylom: Vospominaniia [From the thoughts about the past]. Moscow, Feniks; Kul'turnaia initsiativa Publ., 1992. 512 p. (In Russian) 2 Nikolai Antsiferov. “Takova nasha zhizn' v pis'makh”: Pis'ma rodnym i druz'iam (1900–1950-e gody) [“This is our life in letters”: Letters to family and friends (1900–1950-ies) ], responsible editor-compiler, preface D. S. Moskovskaya. Moscow, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie Publ., 2021. 640 p. (In Russian) 3 Udovenko I. V. Prostranstvo nevoli: GULAG i ego sotsium [The Space of unfreedom: GULAG and its society]. Samarskii nauchnyi vestnik, 2020, vol. 9, no 2, pp. 204–209. (In Russian) 4 Shalamov V. T. Novaia kniga: Vospominaniia. Zapisnye knizhki. Perepiska. Sledstvennye dela [New book: Memories. Notebooks. Correspondence. Investigative cases]. Moscow, Eksmo Publ., 2004. 1072 p. (In Russian) |
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