The failure to establish a central memorial to the victims of the Gulag mentioned in my previous post is part of a problem of contested memory that has been apparent since the demise of the Soviet Union but has escalated in the last decade or so. As Arseny Roginsky’s eloquent essay The Embrace of Stalinism shows, […]
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Historical memory of the Gulag (3): Contested memory
Posted by Sarah Young on September 17, 2015
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2015/09/17/historical-memory-of-the-gulag-3-contested-memory/
Women in the Gulag
I always welcome new contributions to the study of the Gulag, particularly (because it is a dimension that remains much less explored than the history) those that focus on personal experiences of the Soviet labour camp system and the writings associated with it, so I was looking forward to reading Paul R. Gregory’s Women of […]
Posted by Sarah Young on November 11, 2013
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2013/11/11/women-in-the-gulag/