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:

• 9781785339288
• 1785339281