Remembering Communist Violence
The Bulgarian Gulag and the Conscience of the West
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11372285 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nadia Kaneva (0000-0002-4491-3317, University of Colorado Boulder, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 44-61 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Communication Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0196-8599 • E-ISSN: 1552-4612 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0196859906294703 |
| OpenAlex | W2053574234 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 31 |
This article problematizes the rhetorical appropriations of memories of violence by focusing on a collection of narratives of former labor camp inmates in communist Bulgaria. The collection, published in the United States in 1999 under the title Voices From the GULAG: Life and Death in Communist Bulgaria, was edited and introduced by Tzvetan Todorov and represents an effort to interpret the meaning of communist political violence. By examining Todorov's strategies of interpretation, the article discusses how the personal narratives of camp survivors are appropriated in a rhetoric of conscience, directed at Western public opinion, whereby their historical and political significance is transformed. The analysis demonstrates how the painful accounts of victims are discursively subsumed into an ideological discourse about a morally superior, democratic West and a corrupt, totalitarian East
Bulgarian · Communism · Conscience · Gulag · Ideology · Literature · Meaning (existential · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
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Discipline and Punish
Media, state, and nation
The Legitimization of Violence
Commemorations
Uncertain Transition
Tangled Memories
On Collective Memory
The Politics of Collective Violence
What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next
Voices from the Gulag
Collective Political Violence
Remembering World War II
Discipline and Punish
Between Memory and History
The Economics of Forced Labor. The Soviet Gulag
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| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |