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Kedrovyi Sor : la vie quotidienne dans un camp du goulag à l'époque stalinienne
No full textKedrovyi Sor: daily life in a Gulag camp during the Stalinist period, Oleg Azarov.
Our knowledge of the Soviet concentration camp universe is beginning to be nourished by direct access to archives. The author, a young Russian scholar, has been able to work on a rich collection of documents concerning the camp of Kedrovyi Sor, in the Pečora bassin. Through his study of the camp's administrative structure, its financial operation and its economic activities, and through an analysis of the inmates and their living conditions, he provides, almost in the raw, a concrete and precise description of the daily functioning of a Stalinist camp from the early 1930s to the 1950s.Azarov Oleg, Laurent Natacha. Kedrovyi Sor : la vie quotidienne dans un camp du goulag à l'époque stalinienne. In: Vingtième Siècle, revue d'histoire, n°43, juillet-septembre 1994. Dossier : Histoire au présent de la "political correctness" pp. 69-87
Bilingual Literature of Tanzania as a Specific Inter-Literary Community
No full textA Journal article by Mikhail Gromov, a Faculty in the School of Humanities and social Sciences at USIU-AfricaModern literary theory has created a variety of approaches to describe dynamic
processes emerging in a literary field. This may be especially significant in the case of
relatively young literary traditions, characterized by rather high level of dynamics.
Among various theories of significance is a theory launched in the last quarter of
the last century by a Slovakian scholar of comparative literature, Dionýz Ďurišin (1929-
1997), who came up with the theory of the so-called specific inter-literary communities.
The works of Ďurišin and other scholars, mainly from East European countries (such as
Joseph Grmela, Libuša Vajdova, Irina Nikiforova, Yuri Azarov, and others) were
published in the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s in a variety of collections. The key
points of Ďurišin’s theory, as formulated by Yuri Azarov, read as follows:
Already in the early 1980s Dionýz Ďurišin proposes -- and since that time he
was gradually perfecting it -- the methodology that allows to investigate the
literary process on the level of over--national literary conglomerates, the
‘unions’ of particular literatures, which have been developing, due to specific
historical and cultural reasons, in tight interaction over a more or less long
time span. […] For a comparison, let us remember that many previous
theoretical works were using ‘national literature’ as the main and dominating
structural unit. […] However, the creators of this new theory study national
literatures only as components of higher order complexes, which they call
specific inter--literary communities; these communities, in the long run, result
in one ‘final’ community, which, according to D. Ďurišin, is the community of
the world literature”. (Azarov 2002:18
