Gulag Memories
The Rediscovery and Commemoration of Russia’s Repressive PastThough 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. ISBN: 9781785339271, 1785339273
