Language and Resistance  

The Russian poet Varlam Shalamov spent almost 25 years in Soviet prisons and labor camps, 17 of them in Kolyma, for “counterrevolutionary activities.” One of his Kolyma Stories, published here under the title “Lend-Lease Comes to a Soviet Camp” (these …



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