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** 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.
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: Shukhov is just barely saved from getting sent to the hole during an inspection thanks to one of these.
* [[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.
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* [[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.
* [[Jerkass]]: Practically everyone in the story, Shukhov included, is one to some extent, but the plot avoids [[Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy]] because the actual villains are these minus any redeeming traits or sympathetic reasons. One can even make a case Alyosha is one, given his lack of sympathy for Shukhov's contempt of religion, which is born of utterly understandable motives.
** [[Jerkass Has a Point]]: Fetuykov is an asshole, but he makes a perfectly valid point to Bunoksky (who chews him out for fishing tobacco out of spittoons) that zeks have to do some incredibly sad and disgusting things in the name of survival.
* [[Kangaroo Court]]: Many people got imprisoned because the Soviet legal system is this [[Up to Eleven]].
** [[Truth in Television]]: Worse, since many of the fictional reasons were based off real ones.
* [[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.
** And even what zeks ARE allowed to have reeks of this trope, as they have to make do with ropes instead of leather belts, and their shoes run the list of actual leather shoes to those made out of old tires.
* [[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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