Luba Jurgenson et Nicolas Werth, Le Goulag : Témoignages et archives

Abstract

Is it best to examine the history of the Gulag from literary or historical perspectives? Should one attempt to study the camps from below, through prisoners' own words, or is it better to analyze the Gulag through the reports written by state bureaucrats? As Luba Jurgenson and Nicolas Werth argue and demonstrate in Le Goulag : Temoignages et archives, it is not necessary to make such a choice. In fact, one shouldn't – as the editors show, it is only through the careful consideration of both p...