Emily D. Johnson is an associate professor of Russian at the University of Oklahoma. She studies twentieth-century Russian literature and history and the legacy of the Stalinist labor camp system. In 2017 Yale University Press will publish Gulag Letters, her translation of the correspondence of the Russo-Latvian poet Arsenii Formakov.
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