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Polly Jones' new book provides readers with a helpful introduction to Gulag fiction that is grounded in recent research. The chapters on 21st-century novels set in the Soviet detention sites are particularly strong and will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary Russian literature as well as to those interested in labor camp literature specifically. - Emily D. Johnson, Professor of Russian, University of Oklahoma, USA Why has fiction about Stalin’s camps flourished in the twenty-first century, even as the Kremlin crushes dissent with remorseless brutality? Polly Jones explores this puzzling cultural phenomenon, revealing the tangled roots of the Gulag in Russia’s literary imagination. Timely and compelling, this will be essential reading for anyone curious about Russian democracy. - Dan Healey, Emeritus professor of Russian and Soviet History, University of Oxford, UK

Polly Jones' new book provides readers with a helpful introduction to Gulag fiction that is grounded in recent research. The chapters on 21st-century novels set in the Soviet detention sites are particularly strong and will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary Russian literature as well as to those interested in labor camp literature specifically. - Emily D. Johnson, Professor of Russian, University of Oklahoma, USA Why has fiction about Stalin’s camps flourished in the twenty-first century, even as the Kremlin crushes dissent with remorseless brutality? Polly Jones explores this puzzling cultural phenomenon, revealing the tangled roots of the Gulag in Russia’s literary imagination. Timely and compelling, this will be essential reading for anyone curious about Russian democracy. - Dan Healey, Emeritus professor of Russian and Soviet History, University of Oxford, UK [Polly Jones'] fascinating Gulag Fiction ... spans decades of immense change, and one of its strengths is that it situates each novel in its proper context, as knowledge of the Gulag system expanded after Stalin's death and again after the fall of the Soviet Union. The final chapters, on fiction by or about perpetrators and post-memory... are particularly valuable. * The Times Literary Supplement *

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Polly Jones is Professor of Russian at the University of Oxford, UK. She has published extensively on Soviet literature and memory politics, including two monographs (Myth, Memory, Trauma (2013) and Revolution Rekindled (2019)), several edited volumes (including The Dilemmas of De-Stalinization (2006)) and numerous articles. She is embarking on a new collaborative project about the concept of the ‘101st kilometre’ in Soviet penal policy and practice.

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