Gulag Memories : The Rediscovery and Commemoration of Russia's Repressive Past Hardback
by Zuzanna Bogumił
Hardback
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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 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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:Berghahn Books
- Publication Date:14/09/2018
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- ISBN:9781785339271
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:Berghahn Books
- Publication Date:14/09/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781785339271