{"product_id":"a-mind-purified-by-suffering-evgenia-ginzburg-s-whirlwind-memoirs-9798887191706","title":"A Mind Purified by Suffering : Evgenia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“A Mind Purified by Suffering\": Evgenia Ginzburg’s \"Whirlwind\" Memoirs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003erepresents the first book on one of Russia’s most important classics of Gulag literature. Ginzburg’s memoirs of her eighteen-year ordeal through Stalinist concentration camps,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eJourney into the Whirlwind\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWithin the Whirlwind\u003c\/i\u003e, place her in the company of Russian writers, such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Varlam Shalamov. The contributors address Ginzburg’s Gulag experience through various vantage points, covering such topics as: memory, trauma, motherhood, love, survival strategies, and metafictional structures. The volume also provides a history of prison camp writings, capped with her biography, analysis of her correspondence with her son, Vasily Aksenov, and an interview with him.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This collection is an essential contribution to the literature on Evgenia Ginzburg,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eKrutoi marshrut\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Soviet Gulag. These chapters offer a fresh look at a classic text, seeking to deepen and broaden our understanding of one of the most influential works in the Gulag literary canon. The collection reminds us of Ginzburg’s importance while offering new and productive ways to understand the richness of her work, relationships, and legacies.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e— Alan Barenberg, Texas Tech University, author of G\u003ci\u003eulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and its Legacy in Vorkuta\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand co-editor of \u003ci\u003eRethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A timely multi-faceted collection of intra- and interdisciplinary research papers on the memoirs of the Gulag veteran Evgenia Ginzburg. Placing Ginzburg’s narrative in a number of contexts, tracing the author’s emotional and ideological arc, and offering unexpected insights, this volume fills in a gap in the scholarship and provides a basis and a stimulus for further academic conversation about one of the most impressive and influential accounts of life under Stalinist terror.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e— Leona Toker, author of \u003ci\u003eReturn from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors\u003c\/i\u003e and of\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eGulag Literature of Nazi Camps: An Intercontextual Reading\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Justifiably introduced by Barbara Heldt as comparable to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom’s Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e and Rachel Carson’s \u003ci\u003eSilent Spring\u003c\/i\u003e, Evgenia Ginzburg’s landmark memoir of eighteen years in the Soviet Gulag system, \u003ci\u003eJourney into the Whirlwind\u003c\/i\u003e, has influenced generations of Gulag eyewitnesses as well as scholarship on Gulag writing, Soviet political repression, and the gendering of writing about repression. In this collection, Olga Cooke has brought together an impressive variety of approaches to Ginzburg’s and others’ writing by recognized scholars of Ginzburg’s work that will be required reading for future scholarship in the field. This thoroughly documented and elegantly edited volume serves the needs of both researcher and teacher, a welcome (and long-overdue) addition to our libraries.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e— Diane Nemec Ignashev, Class of 1941 Professor of Russian \u0026amp; the Liberal Arts, Carleton College (Northfield, MN)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarbara Heldt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOlga M. Cooke\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. A Cruel Journey of the Soul: the Initiation of Evgenia Ginzburg  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDariusz Tołczyk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Mimetic Resistance in Evgenia’s Ginzburg’s \u003ci\u003eKrutoi marshrut\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNatasha Kolchevska \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. A Communist Woman in the Gulag: Gender, Ideology and Limit-Experience in Ginzburg and Budzyńska\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnna Artwińska\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. My Son, My Self: Reevaluating a Culture of Vulnerability\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKathryn Duda\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Vasily Aksenov and Evgenia Ginzburg in Magadan: Re-Conceiving Soviet Authorship through the Gulag Experience\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnn Komaromi \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. The Survival of the Sublime in a Universe of Malice: Testimonies by Evgenia Ginzburg and Other Gulag Writers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRimma Volynska\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. “Up to Their Old Tricks Again? Taking Mothers from Their Children?” Evgenia Ginzburg as a Mother in the Stalinist Gulag  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElaine MacKinnon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Ethics, Play, and Poetry in the Interval: Evgenia Ginzburg’s Struggle to Survive in the Whirlwind\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOana Popescu-Sandu\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. A Winter Coat for Vasya: The Evgenia Ginzburg-Vasily Aksenov Correspondence (1948–1976)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRimma Volynska\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. Evgenia Ginzburg at the End of Krutoi marshrut\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLev Kopelev and Raisa Orlova\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. Interview with Vasily Aksenov\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRimma Volynska and Olga M. 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