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

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Gulag Memories: The Rediscovery and Commemoration of Russia's Repressive Past - Bogumil, Zuzanna
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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 ...

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Gulag Memories: The Rediscovery and Commemoration of Russia's Repressive Past 2022, Berghahn Books, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9781800734371

Paperback

Gulag Memories: The Rediscovery and Commemoration of Russia's Repressive Past 2018, Berghahn Books, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9781785339271

Hardcover