Gulag Memories: The Rediscovery and Commemoration of Russia's Repressive Past

by PhilipPalmer (Translator), ZuzannaBogumil (Author), Zuzanna Bogumil (Author), Philip Palmer (Translator)

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  Hardcover
  2018

  $147.58

  Though the institution of the Gulag was nominally closed over half a decade ago, it lives on as an often hotly contested site of memory in the post-socialist era. This ethnographic study takes a holistic, comprehensive approach to understanding memories of the Gulag, and particularly the language of commemoration that surrounds it in present-day Russian society. It focuses on four regions of particular historical significance-the Solovetsky Islands, the Komi Republic, the Perm region, and Kolyma-to carefully explore how memories become a social phenomenon, how objects become heritage, and how the human need to create places of memory has preserved the Gulag in specific ways today.