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* [[Beige Prose]]: Shukhov's narration tends towards clipped, simple sentences, regardless of his condition or the world around him--makes sense, given that he's apparently from a collective farm and a conscript, with no immediately evident higher education. (It also makes sense in a meta way, since Solzhenitsyn absolutely HATED the sort of educated loyalist political prisoner who would get uppity about his conditions and make speeches to that effect [while saying everybody else was guilty].)
* [[Butt Monkey]] / [[The Scrappy]] (to his fellow inmates): the scavenger Fetyukov.
* [[Corrupt Bureaucrat]]: You're doing your job wrong if you aren't one of these, as Shukov notes concerning the guards and overseers.
** Some zeks who find themselves positions of power can invert this trope by using it for the benefit of their fellow zeks, like Tsezar, who works in the overseer's office and apparently helps cook the books to keep his work gang from being given the worst assignments.
* [[Corrupt Church]]: Shukov is rather scornful of religion due to experience with this trope.
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: It's one day in the life of the zek Shukov, nothing more, nothing less.
* [[A Father to His Men]]: Tyurin.
* [[Guile Hero]]: Shukhov. In fact, if you want to survive in the Gulag, this is practically a survival prerequisite.
** Gopchick is remarked upon as this trope in training.
* [[Kleptomaniac Hero]]: Shukhov. Given the justifications for doing mean the difference between literally starving or doing pretty well for a prisoner in a Soviet gulag, it's portrayed as a good thing by Shukov's POV, though only if one is stealing from the guards or anyone who isn't a prisoner.
* [[Like a Son to Me]]: Gopchik is this to Shukhov.
* [[Handicapped Badass]]: Senka. Being deaf in one ear didn't make him any less able to kick some ass, which [[Dirty Coward|Der]] nearly finds out first hand.
* [[Institutional Apparel]]: "They weigh nothing, the numbers ..."
** The lack of visible prisoner numbers or the lack of prominence they have on the prisoners is considered especially notable in-universe. The mess manager has a very tiny number on his non prisoner resembling outfit as a means to humor Lieutenant Volkovoy, but otherwise is regarded with utter contempt by the zeks, since he gets very special treatment despite being a prisoner himself.
* [[Kangaroo Court]]: Many people got imprisoned because the Soviet legal system is this [[Up to Eleven]].
* [[MacGyvering]]: Shukhov has a side business as a self taught tailor and metal-smith, and since zeks aren't supposed to have tools like knives, he's had to make his own with unorthodox materials and hide them in improvised hiding places. It's also noted that this particular trope can allow a zek to do quite well for themselves since they have the means to do favors for more well off zeks.
* [[Magikarp Power]]: Shukhov notes Gopchik is young but is learning how to survive very quickly, and lampshades this trope when musing about well off he will be.
* [[The Captain]]: Bunovsky still acts like one, even though he's still a prisoner.
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* [[The Pollyana]]: Kildigs, who is always upbeat and cheerful despite being a prisoner.
* [[Penal Colony]]
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: Some of the guards aren't regarded as really nasty or corrupt, like the Tartar, they are just doing their jobs, and while their jobs encourage them to be assholes, the ones who don't take that excuse and run with it and merely exercise the bare minimum of authority are considered this by the zeks.
* [[True Art]]: Tzesar and another inmate discuss this in regards to [[Sergei Eisenstein]]. Shukov doesn't care.
* [[Vendor Trash]]: Subverted. Shukhov takes a broken piece of a saw blade, despite it's apparent worthlessness, under the knowledge that if properly honed into a knife, it would be worth it's weight in gold.
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