and then shipped off to this prison where they are essentially disappeared — disappeared in the way that you would associate with the Soviet Union. Even then, people got out of the gulag.

In the Soviet Union, this control was not limited to symbolic gestures – it reshaped the entire academic system. Under Josef Stalin, academic survival depended less on scholarly merit than on ...

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