Wilson T Bell

Biographic Data

ID5692383
NAMEWilson T Bell
GIVEN NAMESWilson T
FAMILY NAMEBell
SIGNATUREBELL W T
AFFILIATIONSThompson Rivers University
ORCID0000-0001-7067-7672
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS12
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • From Incarceration to Repatriation

    Wilson T BellARTICLECanadian-American Slavic Studies2026

  • Dan Healey The Gulag Doctors

    Open AccessWilson T BellARTICLESocial History of Medicine2025

  • Barbara Martin. Dissident Histories in the Soviet Union

    Open AccessWilson T BellARTICLEThe American Historical Review2020

    In Dissident Histories in the Soviet Union: From De-Stalinization to Perestroika, Barbara Martin focuses on four key figures and their historical works: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Roy Medvedev, Anton Antonov-Ovseenko, and Aleksandr Nekrich. She traces their paths to dissident status through their respective studies of the Stalin era and Stalinist repression. In all four cases, the individuals began as loyal to the Communist Party, and all four becam…

  • Building Stalinism

    Wilson T BellARTICLERevolutionary Russia2019

    Building Stalinism: The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space." Revolutionary Russia, 32(2), pp. 310–311

  • Solzhenitsyn’s legacy

    Wilson T BellARTICLECanadian Slavonic Papers2019References: 5

    While reading these three, very different books on the Gulag – a historical monograph, a collection of letters written by a prisoner while in the camps, and a memoir – I was struck that a key contr

  • New directions in Gulag studies

    Alan Barenberg, Wilson T Bell et al.ARTICLECanadian Slavonic Papers2017References: 25

    On 29 May 2017, Alan Barenberg (the moderator), Wilson Bell, Sean Kinnear, Steve Maddox, and Lynne Viola participated in a roundtable discussion on “New Directions in Gulag Studies” as part of the

  • Sex, Pregnancy, and Power in the Late Stalinist Gulag

    Wilson T BellARTICLEJournal of the History of Sexuality2015Cited by: 1References: 10

    I n M a y 1947 G . I . Z h u r b a found herself in a situation similar to that of many other Soviet women of the postwar era: she was a single mother raising her nine-month-old child by herself. The child’s father had left her six months before the child’s birth. Had they been living under normal circumstances, changes to Soviet family law in 1944 would have made it incredibly difficult for Zhurba to collect any child support, because they were …

  • Was the Gulag an Archipelago? De‐Convoyed Prisoners and Porous Borders in the Camps of Western Siberia

    Open AccessWilson T BellARTICLEThe Russian Review2013Cited by: 7

    This article focuses on the issue of de‐convoyed ( raskonvoirovannye ) prisoners in order to argue that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's enduring analogy for the Gulag—the archipelago—is, in many instances, misleading. The practice of allowing significant numbers of prisoners to move, unguarded, outside of the camp zones was widespread throughout the Stalin era, and is especially interesting as a topic of study for Western Siberia, an area where the larg…

  • One Day in the Life of Educator Khrushchev

    Wilson T BellARTICLECanadian Slavonic Papers2004Cited by: 4

    Using the recently published microfiche collection, The GULAG Press, 1920–1937, the author examines the newspapers of BAMlag, a Gulag camp system in the Soviet Far East. Although the papers were in many respects propaganda, the author views them as a blueprint for reeducation in the camps in the early- to mid-1930s. They were a part of a broad discourse of transformation—both personal and societal—that existed within the Soviet Union at that time…