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eBook details
- Title: Gulag Memories
- Author : Zuzanna Bogumil
- Release Date : January 14, 2018
- Genre: History,Books,Politics & Current Events,Political Science,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 11467 KB
Description
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.