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

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

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General World HistoryRussian HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1785339273
ISBN13: 9781785339271
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Sep 14 2018
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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 sites of memory has preserved the Gulag in specific ways today.

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