"A Mind Purified by Suffering"

Olga M. Cooke is Associate Professor of Russian at Texas A&M University. She is the editor of Andrey Bely’s Petersburg: A Centennial Celebration (Academic Studies Press, 2017), and Gulag Studies. In addition to her publications on Ginzburg, Bely, and Gulag literature, she is completing a book on Bely’s correspondence. 

Acknowledgements




Foreword

Barbara Heldt




Introduction

Olga M. Cooke




Contributors




1. A Cruel Journey of the Soul: the Initiation of Evgenia Ginzburg  

Dariusz Tołczyk




2. Mimetic Resistance in Evgenia’s Ginzburg’s Krutoi marshrut

Natasha Kolchevska 




3. A Communist Woman in the Gulag: Gender, Ideology and Limit-Experience in Ginzburg and Budzyńska

Anna Artwińska




4. My Son, My Self: Reevaluating a Culture of Vulnerability

Kathryn Duda




5. Vasily Aksenov and Evgenia Ginzburg in Magadan: Re-Conceiving Soviet Authorship through the Gulag Experience

Ann Komaromi 




6. The Survival of the Sublime in a Universe of Malice: Testimonies by Evgenia Ginzburg and Other Gulag Writers

Rimma Volynska




7. “Up to Their Old Tricks Again? Taking Mothers from Their Children?” Evgenia Ginzburg as a Mother in the Stalinist Gulag  

Elaine MacKinnon




8. Ethics, Play, and Poetry in the Interval: Evgenia Ginzburg’s Struggle to Survive in the Whirlwind

Oana Popescu-Sandu




9. A Winter Coat for Vasya: The Evgenia Ginzburg-Vasily Aksenov Correspondence (1948–1976)

Rimma Volynska




10. Evgenia Ginzburg at the End of Krutoi marshrut

Lev Kopelev and Raisa Orlova




11. Interview with Vasily Aksenov

Rimma Volynska and Olga M. Cooke




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