Published: 2020-11-21

Russian Literature and the Extermination of Soviet Prisoners of War

Arkadiusz Morawiec Logo ORCID
Section: The Shoah and Other Genocides
https://doi.org/10.31261/NoZ.2020.06.06

Abstract

The article concerns the motif and theme of Soviet prisoners of war in Russian literature. It presents the most important historical facts, which are the sources of literary approaches, concerning the complicated fate of Soviet POWs during the German-Soviet war (1941‒1945) and after its end. It also shows the political and ideological determinants of the literary image of a prisoner (as a traitor and coward, a resistance fighter in camps and a partisan, victim). The subjects of the analysis are both fictive works and memoirs, among others Mikhail Sholokhov’s The Fate of a Man (Судьба человека), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich (Один день Ивана Денисовича), Vasily Grossman’s Life and fate (Жизнь и судьба), Andrey Pogozhev’s Escape from Auschwitz (Смерть стояла у нас за спиной).

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Morawiec, A. (2020). Russian Literature and the Extermination of Soviet Prisoners of War. Narracje O Zagładzie [Narrations of the Shoah], (6), 80–114. https://doi.org/10.31261/NoZ.2020.06.06

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No. 6 (2020)
Published: 2020-11-23


ISSN: 2450-4424
eISSN: 2451-2133

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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