Gulag memories : the rediscovery and commemoration of Russia's repressive past / Zuzanna Bogumił ; translated by Philip Palmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bogumił, Zuzanna, author.

Contributor:

Palmer, Philip, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internment camps--Soviet Union.

Political prisoners--Soviet Union.

Memorialization--Russia (Federation).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages)

Edition:

English-language edition

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2018.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The Solovetsky Islands

The Komi Republic

Perm Krai

Kolyma.

Notes:

"Polish-language edition, ©2012 Universitas Pamięć Gułagu."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-825-4

1-78533-928-1