GULag-Letters

到目前为止，古拉格书信项目的重点在古拉格研究中几乎没有被考虑过。几乎没有任何研究调查过古拉格囚犯与家属交换的信件。正因为如此，这个项目将首先致力于迄今未知信件的获取。这将通过对NKWD个人档案材料、NKWD官方档案记录以及专门为前古拉格囚犯服务的组织档案中的资产进行系统评估来实现。此外，将通过与前古拉格囚犯及其家属的个人接触促进数据收集。这位研究人员的目标是通过分析当时来自俄罗斯、立陶宛和德国的约1.000封信件，获得进一步的见解。对前古拉格囚犯的档案研究和个人故事使人们对古拉格条件下的行政环境、审查制度和写信的一般条件有了深刻的了解。除其他外，内容分析将侧重于囚犯与其家属之间互动的几个方面、来自铁丝网两侧的经验交流、相互人道主义鼓励、物质支持、信件中的主题遗漏以及与这些极端条件有关的绕过审查的做法。这项科学研究的结果将以加注古拉格字母的详细版本的形式提出。

The focus of the project GULag letters has been hardly considered in the GULag research overall so far. There has been hardly any research that has investigated the letters from GULag prisoners they exchanged with their dependants. Because of that this project will be firstly dedicated to the aquisition of so far unknown letters. This is going to happen by a systematic evaluation of personal NKWD archival materials, official NKWD archival records as well as assets from archives of organizations dedicated to former GULag prisoners. In addition, data collection will be facilitated through personal contacts to former GULag prisoners and their dependants. The researcher aims to get further insights by analysing about 1.000 letters from Russia, Lithuania and Germany from that time. Archival research and personal stories of former GULag prisoners have yielded deep insights into the administrative circumstances, censorship and and the general conditions of writing letters under GULag conditions. Among other things the content analysis will focus on the several facettes of interaction between prisoners and their dependants, the exchange of experiences from both sides of the barbed wire, the mutual humanitarian encouragement, the material support, the subject omissions in the letters as well as practices related to bypassing censorship related these extreme conditions. Results of this scientific research will be presented in form of a detailed annotated edition of GULag letters.