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Life Lines: Perspectives On Russian And European Culture, Society, And Politics [A Festschrift For Professor Raymond T. Mcnally], Nicholas Racheotes
Life Lines: Perspectives On Russian And European Culture, Society, And Politics [A Festschrift For Professor Raymond T. Mcnally], Nicholas Racheotes
Nicholas Racheotes
A "Festschrift for Professor Raymond T. McNally," this volume comprises ten studies by colleagues and former students of the distinguished historian of Russia. Included are studies considering the relationships between Russian and Soviet political leaders and literary figures, e.g. Khrushchev and Solzhenitsyn; literary memoirs of leaders of the "intelligentsia" such as Alexandr Herzen; and overviews of American-Romanian relations, Bohemian history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and American-Soviet relations in the 1930s.
“‘Gulag’—Slavery, Inc.”: The Power Of Place And The Rhetorical Life Of A Cold War Map, Timothy Barney
“‘Gulag’—Slavery, Inc.”: The Power Of Place And The Rhetorical Life Of A Cold War Map, Timothy Barney
Rhetoric and Communication Studies Faculty Publications
In 1951, the American Federation of Labor produced a map of the Soviet Union showing the locations of 175 forced labor camps administered by the Gulag. Widely appropriated in popular magazines and newspapers, and disseminated internationally as propaganda against the U.S.S.R., the map, entitled “‘Gulag’—Slavery, Inc.,” would be cited as “one of the most widely circulated pieces of anti-Communist literature.” By contextualizing the map’s origins and circulation, as well as engaging in a close analysis of its visual codes and intertextual relationships with photographs, captions, and other materials, this essay argues that the Gulag map became an evidentiary weapon in …