3 Political Offenders in Xingkaihu Labour Camp

2018 ◽  
pp. 82-110
Keyword(s):  
Labour Camp

EXCAVATIONS AT THE ROMAN FORT OF BAR HILL, 1978-82

1985 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
L J F Keppie
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Phase ◽  
George Macdonald ◽  
Pottery Kiln ◽  
Labour Camp

Summary Excavation of this Antonine Wall fort, previously explored by Sir George Macdonald and Mr Alexander Park in 1902-05, has exposed the bathhouse and headquarters building (principia) for permanent public view. The sequence of rooms in the bathhouse is now better understood; set into one wall of its main furnace was a small pottery kiln, from which came some 900 sherds in a distinctive fabric, showing strong influences from N Africa. In the headquarters building, a dais was recognised at the SW corner of the crosshall, and a strongbox in the floor of a room in the rear range. In a secondary phase the W half of the courtyard was converted to house a timber-framed storebuilding. The defences and part of the interior of the underlying ‘fortlet’ were examined; its clay rampart was located, and several possible cooking areas. Most probably, despite the recovery of some native finds, the ‘fortlet’ should be seen as a Roman labour-camp associated with the building of the Antonine Wall hereabouts. From its ditch came hawthorn twigs and branches, which along with blocks of turf had served to pack the ditch when the fort was built on top.

Literature published in BAMlag’s main newspaper Stroitel BAMa

2019 ◽  
pp. 138-157
Author(s):  
T. E. Smykovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Lyrical Poetry ◽  
Russian Literary ◽  
History Of ◽  
Labour Camp

T. Smykovskaya writes about a unique episode of Russian literary history: the development of so-called ‘labour-camp literature’, more specifically, lyrical poetry, published in the camps’ newspapers. The article focuses on BAMlag’s principal paper Stroitel BAMa, which saw publications of works by A. Alving, P. Florensky, A. Tsvetaeva, and other detainees. In her examination of the material, which so far has provoked little to no scholarly interest, the author highlights the key themes, images and subjects of labour-camp literature. Essentially, the article attempts to focus on the yet unknown history of the newspaper Stroitel BAMa, the main printed medium of BAMlag, as well as to describe the paper’s artistic and journalistic paradigm, which defined the literary activities of Svobodlag for a decade. Therefore, the article covers the newspaper’s history from the 1933 competition for its name until the emergence of the poetry section in the mid-1930s; from the Stakhanov theme, omnipresent in ‘free’ and labour-camp poetry alike in 1936, until eulogy of the Soviet leaders in pre-war years.

Helping artists is a crime

1982 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 40-40
Author(s):  
David Floyd
Keyword(s):  
Labour Camp

Helping artists is a crime, the tragic story of Yevgenia Gutkina, an art enthusiast, whose efforts to help Russian artists have landed her in a labour camp

‘I’d sooner blackleg my union than blackleg my country’ – Labour Patriotism, 1914–18

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Swift
Keyword(s):  
Labour Movement ◽  
General Consensus ◽  
War Effort ◽  
History Of ◽  
Labour Camp

This chapter examines events in August 1914, including the Left’s acquiescence to the war, and how it managed to co-ordinate its response. It will discuss the principal characters in the ‘patriotic labour’ camp, and survey specific unions and ordinary workers who gave their support – and their lives – to the war effort. The progress of the war inevitably gave rise to anti-German hostility, and the motivations and implications of this will also be analysed. Finally, there will be a survey of ordinary trade unionists and labour activists who distinguished themselves during the conflict. In terms of both an elite and subaltern level, it will be argued that there was a decidedly united response from labour. Although enthusiasm for the war amongst the labour movement was rare, there was a general consensus that, once begun, it had to be seen through. Ultimately, this chapter argues that labour patriotism, rather than anti-war agitation, characterised the Left’s response to the war, and that the history of labour patriotism in this period has been unjustly neglected by historians.

USSR

1982 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 31-32
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Alexeyeva
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Executive Director ◽  
Political Prisoners ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Dangerous Situation ◽  
Penal Institutions ◽  
Labour Camp

Conditions in Soviet penal institutions have in recent years become harsher than ever. In a report on the current status of political prisoners in the USSR, compiled by Lyudmila Alexeyeva and presented in New York on 1 August by its Executive Director, Jeri Laber, the New York based Helsinki Watch draws attention to a dangerous situation which leaves political prisoners ‘entirely helpless before the labour camp and prison authorities and the KGB’. We print a slightly edited version of the report.

scholarly journals Destination Museum

Museum Worlds ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-81
Author(s):  
Conal McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Helicopter Parents ◽  
Royal Ontario Museum ◽  
Turn On ◽  
Death Camp ◽  
Forced Labour ◽  
Labour Camp

What was the first museum you remember visiting?I was born in September 1942 during the war. My parents came from Poland. Three weeks after I was born, 6,500 Jews from my father’s hometown, Opatów (Apt, in Yiddish), 65% of the population, disappeared overnight. All but 500 were sent to the Treblinka death camp, and the rest to a forced labour camp. So I grew up in an immigrant neighbourhood in the immediate postwar years. I went through an ultra-Orthodox period (my parents were horrified). I became not only strictly kosher, but also I observed the Sabbath very strictly. That meant I could not ride, spend money, turn on the radio, write, tear paper . . . I could do almost nothing. Except . . . I could walk to the Royal Ontario Museum. . . . and I did. So this was before the era of helicopter parents. At the age of 10, 11, 12 years old, I would walk out of my house, through Queen’s Park, to the ROM, and that was my beloved childhood museum.

scholarly journals Prisoner doctor in a Soviet labour camp 1940-1.

BMJ ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 299 (6715) ◽  
pp. 1601-1604
Author(s):  
J. J. Geller
Keyword(s):  
Labour Camp

scholarly journals Polskie akcenty w publicystyce Aleksandra Sołżenicyna

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (XXII) ◽  
pp. 73-82
Author(s):  
Izabella Siemianowska
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Nobel Prize Winner ◽  
Pope John Paul Ii ◽  
The Past ◽  
Polish People ◽  
Forced Labour ◽  
Polish Scientist ◽  
Labour Camp ◽  
Gulag Archipelago

Poland and Polish people are shown in the Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s writing in the context of complicated Polish-Russian relations. In Repentance and Self-limitation the author criticises Polish nation for being unable to repent and admit making mistakes in the past in a historical context. At the same time he claims that Russians have a natural ability to repentance, that is a condition of a moral renewal of a nation. Nevertheless, the overall picture of the Polish nation in Solzhenitsyn’s writing is positive. This Russian Nobel prize winner highlights Polish courage, pride and their undeterred struggle for freedom. In The Gulag Archipelago the author eternalises a Polish scientist named Jerzy Wegierski, a prisoner of a forced labour camp, who had been Solzhenitsyn’s friend till his death. It is also very important to highlight Solzhenitsyn’s respect and attitude toward the Pope John Paul II. The article is an attempt to recall and analyse Polish features in the Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s writing.

scholarly journals The Origin of Labour Camp Theme in A.I. Solzhenitsyn’s Works: from Poetry to The Gulag Archipelago

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-263
Author(s):  
Nadezhda I. Glukhova ◽  
Nellya M. Shchedrina
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Political Prisoners ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
Narrative Poem ◽  
First Time ◽  
Labour Camp ◽  
Gulag Archipelago

In the present article A.I. Solzhenitsyn’s poetic works and The Gulag Archipelago are analyzed, their proximity and thematic kinship are revealed. The authors appeal to the creative history of these works, remark that poems and parts of the Archipelago are arranged according to a certain pattern. Both in poetry and prose, Solzhenitsyn reveals the path taken by Soviet convicts. Camps for political prisoners and I.V. Stalin’s death take significant place in his works. A.I. Solzhenitsyn is particularly interested in the unity of heroes with nature, communion with it as with an attribute of free people’s life. The writer claims that the camp may become a starting point for spiritual resurrection of a human being. Metaphorization as one of the artistic elements is used for the first time in lyrics to reveal the image of Russia. The authors conclude that the camp theme arose during Solzhenitsyn’s imprisonment and was first expressed in lyrics and the narrative poem Dorozhen’ka. The Gulag Archipelago was formed later not only from the personal experience of the author but also from numerous materials and evidence of eyewitnesses.

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