Gulag memories: the rediscovery and commemoration of Russia's repressive past

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...

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1. Verfasser: Bogumił, Zuzanna (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Palmer, Philip (ÜbersetzerIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford Berghahn 2018
Ausgabe:English-language edition
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Zusammenfassung: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 places of memory has preserved the Gulag in specific ways today
Beschreibung:"Polish-language edition, ©2012 Universitas, originally published by Universitas as Pamięć Gułagu."
Beschreibung:IX, 238 Seiten Illustrationen, Karte
ISBN:9781785339271