Fearlessness and Resistance in the Gulag: Estonian Prison Camp Poetry by Rebekka Lotman

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Exilul „concentraţionar” şi poezia ca libertate by Sorin Ivan

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Tat[o]ueur : pouvoirs du tatouage dans Little Tulip, de Jerome Charyn et François Boucq by Sophie Vallas

“…This graphic novel moves back and forth between the USSR of the 1940s and 1950s and New York City in the 1970s to tell the story of Paul, a US-born tattoo artist who spent his childhood in a Gulag colony in Siberia where, as Pavel, he learnt his craft. …”
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A Literary Testimonial to Banal Evil: Dehumanization in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Daniela Cârstea

“…What emerges from the comments on Pym, from the explication of some of the death scenes, from the gratuitousness of the violence, and the nonchalance of Pym’s report, is not the horror, but a sense of the casualness of death, the “banality of evil” that Poe opposes to the “grandeur of evil,” looking ahead to Auschwitz and the Gulag. In Pym, Poe presents us with a rare instantiation of pure (and banal) evil in the casually-reported scene of the cannibalization. …”
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Russianisms in Contemporary English Online Media by L.K. Khalitova

“…Russian borrowings from the household vocabulary (troika, matryoshka), sociopolitical lexicon (tsar/czar), and Sovietisms (gulag) can occur in contexts unrelated to the Russian history or culture. …”
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Time and The Diary in Captivity, a Case Study: The Diary of Fela Szeps (1942-1944) by Batsheva Ben-Amos

“…In concentration camps, gulags, and prisons, freedom of movement and choice—contact with the outside world, access to information, interactions with others, quality of food and hygiene, privacy—are controlled by the captors. …”
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