Letters from the Gulag as a Survival Technique: A Case of the Artist Grigorii Filippovskii Cover Image

Письма из лагеря как способ сохранить себя: случай художника Григория Филипповского
Letters from the Gulag as a Survival Technique: A Case of the Artist Grigorii Filippovskii

Author(s): Andrei Zavadski
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Центр независимых социологических исследований (ЦНСИ)
Keywords: Alltagsgeschichte; Commemoration; Gulag; Grigorii Filippovskii; Letters; Memoir; Repressed Artists

Summary/Abstract: This essay examines how writing letters to his wife helped the Soviet illustrator Grigorii Filippovskii, who in 1938 was sentenced to five years of camp labor, to survive the Gulag.

  • Issue Year: 7/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 147-157
  • Page Count: 11