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Illness and inhumanity in Stalin's Gulag /
No full textA new and chilling study of lethal human exploitation in the Soviet forced labor camps, one of the pillars of Stalinist terror In a shocking new study of life and death in Stalin's Gulag, historian Golfo Alexopoulos suggests that Soviet forced labor camps were driven by brutal exploitation and often administered as death camps. The first study to examine the Gulag penal system through the lens of health, medicine, and human exploitation, this extraordinary work draws from previously inaccessible archives to offer a chilling new view of one of the pillars of Stalinist terror.Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Exploiting "human raw material" -- Food: "Whoever does not work, shall not eat" -- Prisoners: "The contingent" -- Health: "Physical labor capability" -- Illness and mortality: "Lost labor days" -- Invalids: "Inferior workforce" -- Releases: "Unloading the ballast" -- Power: "We are not doctors but delousers" -- Selection: "The more (and less) valuable human element" -- Exploitation: "Labor utilization" -- Epilogue: Deaths and deceptions.A new and chilling study of lethal human exploitation in the Soviet forced labor camps, one of the pillars of Stalinist terror In a shocking new study of life and death in Stalin's Gulag, historian Golfo Alexopoulos suggests that Soviet forced labor camps were driven by brutal exploitation and often administered as death camps. The first study to examine the Gulag penal system through the lens of health, medicine, and human exploitation, this extraordinary work draws from previously inaccessible archives to offer a chilling new view of one of the pillars of Stalinist terror
Voices beyond the Urals
Get PDFDes voix au-delà de l’Oural : découverte d’archives centrales d’État. – Le Centre de Conservation des Fonds de Sécurité (Centr Hranenija Strahovogo Fonda – CHSF) est un immense entrepôt de documents d’État situé dans la ville de Jalutorovsk en Sibérie occidentale. Construit comme tel à la mort de Stalin et non en tant que collection d’archives, il demeura fermé aux historiens jusqu’en 1992. Il sert uniquement au stockage et à l’entretien des microfilms ou des copies (strahovye fondy) d’importants documents d’archives des périodes tsariste et soviétique. Le Centre contient en outre une très grande collection d’originaux, publications, enregistrements sonores et films en provenance de différentes archives centrales d’État de Moscou. Cette étude dresse le premier inventaire du contenu de la vaste collection du Centre et cherche également à démontrer l’importance de son fonds en se concentrant sur un groupe de documents qui y sont conservés, à savoir les dossiers et les pétitions individuelles des lishency, ces personnes privées de leurs droits, entre les années 1920 et 1930. Un échantillonnage systématique de ces pétitions peut aider l’historien à explorer toute une série de questions nouvelles telles que la façon dont les victimes répondaient à la répression ou la façon dont l’adhésion politique se construisait et comment elle était contestée dans le nouvel État soviétique.The Center for Preservation of a Reserve Record is an enormous warehouse of state documents located in the western Siberian town of Ialutorovsk. It was built after the death of Stalin as a repository and not an archive, and was closed to researchers until 1992. The Center’s primary and unique function is the maintenance and storage of microfilms or back-up copies (strakhovye fondy) of important archival documents from both the Tsarist and Soviet periods. In addition to the microfilms, however, the Center stores a vast collection of original documents, printed material, sound recordings and films which were moved to this remote site from their original storage in various central state archives in Moscow. This study is the first to list the contents of the Center’s vast collection, but also seeks to illustrate the importance of the Center’s holdings by focusing on a group of documents stored there, the case files and individual petitions of the lishentsy or the disenfranchised from the 1920s and 1930s. A systematic sampling of these petitions can help historians to explore a variety of new questions, such as the victim’s response to repression and the ways in which political membership was contested and constructed in the new Soviet state
Voices beyond the Urals
Get PDFDes voix au-delà de l’Oural : découverte d’archives centrales d’État. – Le Centre de Conservation des Fonds de Sécurité (Centr Hranenija Strahovogo Fonda – CHSF) est un immense entrepôt de documents d’État situé dans la ville de Jalutorovsk en Sibérie occidentale. Construit comme tel à la mort de Stalin et non en tant que collection d’archives, il demeura fermé aux historiens jusqu’en 1992. Il sert uniquement au stockage et à l’entretien des microfilms ou des copies (strahovye fondy) d’importants documents d’archives des périodes tsariste et soviétique. Le Centre contient en outre une très grande collection d’originaux, publications, enregistrements sonores et films en provenance de différentes archives centrales d’État de Moscou. Cette étude dresse le premier inventaire du contenu de la vaste collection du Centre et cherche également à démontrer l’importance de son fonds en se concentrant sur un groupe de documents qui y sont conservés, à savoir les dossiers et les pétitions individuelles des lishency, ces personnes privées de leurs droits, entre les années 1920 et 1930. Un échantillonnage systématique de ces pétitions peut aider l’historien à explorer toute une série de questions nouvelles telles que la façon dont les victimes répondaient à la répression ou la façon dont l’adhésion politique se construisait et comment elle était contestée dans le nouvel État soviétique.The Center for Preservation of a Reserve Record is an enormous warehouse of state documents located in the western Siberian town of Ialutorovsk. It was built after the death of Stalin as a repository and not an archive, and was closed to researchers until 1992. The Center’s primary and unique function is the maintenance and storage of microfilms or back-up copies (strakhovye fondy) of important archival documents from both the Tsarist and Soviet periods. In addition to the microfilms, however, the Center stores a vast collection of original documents, printed material, sound recordings and films which were moved to this remote site from their original storage in various central state archives in Moscow. This study is the first to list the contents of the Center’s vast collection, but also seeks to illustrate the importance of the Center’s holdings by focusing on a group of documents stored there, the case files and individual petitions of the lishentsy or the disenfranchised from the 1920s and 1930s. A systematic sampling of these petitions can help historians to explore a variety of new questions, such as the victim’s response to repression and the ways in which political membership was contested and constructed in the new Soviet state
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Agents of Terror: Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin\u27s Secret Police. By Alexander Vatlin. Ed. and Trans. Seth Bernstein.
No full textVoices beyond the Urals [The discovery of a central State archive*]
No full textGolfo Alexopoulos. Voices beyond the Urals: The discovery of a central state archive. The Center for Preservation of a Reserve Record is an enormous warehouse of state documents located in the western Siberian town of Ialutorovsk. It was built after the death of Stalin as a repository and not an archive, and was closed to researchers until 1992. The Center's primary and unique function is the maintenance and storage of microfilms or back-up copies (strakhovye fondy) of important archival documents from both the Tsarist and Soviet periods. In addition to the microfilms, however, the Center stores a vast collection of original documents, printed material, sound recordings and films which were moved to this remote site from their original storage in various central state archives in Moscow. This study is the first to list the contents of the Center's vast collection, but also seeks to illustrate the importance of the Center's holdings by focusing on a group of documents stored there, the case files and individual petitions of the lishentsy or the disenfranchised from the 1920s and 1930s. A systematic sampling of these petitions can help historians to explore a variety of new questions, such as the victim's response to repression and the ways in which political membership was contested and constructed in the new Soviet state.Golfo Alexopoulos. Des voix au delà de l'Oural : découverte d 'archives centrales d 'État. Le Centre de Conservation des Fonds de Sécurité (Centr Hranenija Strahovogo Fonda — CHSF) est un immense entrepôt de documents d'État situé dans la ville de Jalutorovsk en Sibérie occidentale. Construit comme tel à la mort de Stalin et non en tant que collection d'archives, il demeura fermé aux historiens jusqu'en 1992. Il sert uniquement au stockage et à l'entretien des microfilms ou des copies (strahovye fondy) d'importants documents d'archives des périodes tsariste et soviétique. Le Centre contient en outre une très grande collection d'originaux, publications, enregistrements sonores et films en provenance de différentes archives centrales d'État de Moscou. Cette étude dresse le premier inventaire du contenu de la vaste collection du Centre et cherche également à démontrer l'importance de son fonds en se concentrant sur un groupe de documents qui y sont conservés, à savoir les dossiers et les pétitions individuelles des lišency, ces personnes privées de leurs droits, entre les années 1920 et 1930. Un échantillonnage systématique de ces pétitions peut aider l'historien à explorer toute une série de questions nouvelles telles que la façon dont les victimes répondaient à la répression ou la façon dont l'adhésion politique se construisait et comment elle était contestée dans le nouvel État soviétique.Alexopoulos Golfo. Voices beyond the Urals [The discovery of a central State archive*]. In: Cahiers du monde russe : Russie, Empire russe, Union soviétique, États indépendants, vol. 40, n°1-2, Janvier-juin 1999. Archives et nouvelles sources de l'histoire soviétique, une réévaluation Assessing the new Soviet archival sources. pp. 199-215
Wendy Z. Goldman and Donald Filtzer (eds), \u3cem\u3eHunger and War: Food Provisioning in the Soviet Union During World War II\u3c/em\u3e
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