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Author_Zuzanna Bogumil
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Gulag
Postwar Soviet Union
Slavonic Studies
Soviet Union
Product details
- ISBN 9781785339271
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Sep 2018
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: 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 places of memory has preserved the Gulag in specific ways today.
Zuzanna Bogumil is Assistant Professor at the Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw. Her most recent book is the co-authored study The Enemy on Display: The Second World War in Eastern European Museums (Berghahn 2015).
