| FA-55708-11 | Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers | Golfo Alexopoulos, PhD | A Gulag History: The Violence of Everyday Life | 6/1/2011 - 5/31/2012 | $50,400.00 | Golfo | | Alexopoulos | | | | University of South Florida | Tampa | FL | 33620-9951 | USA | 2010 | Russian History | Fellowships for University Teachers | Research Programs | 50400 | 0 | 50400 | 0 |
My book project expands the current field of political, economic, and institutional histories of the Gulag, and offers a cultural history of the Stalinist camps. The book is focused on a few select topics that reveal some of the more distinctive, yet largely overlooked, camp practices and features of everyday life. I shift attention from the Gulag's economic rationale and political prisoners, to the Gulag's broad societal impact and systemic violence. Throughout the various chapters, I highlight the ways in which the violence of everyday life proved to be extensive, routine, and inherent in the labor camp system's design. In this way, I situate the Gulag in the broader academic discussions concerning state terror and crimes against humanity. |