Kirk, Tyler C.

After the Gulag : A History of Memory in Russia's Far North. - 1st ed. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2023. ©2023. - 1 online resource (309 pages)

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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Letters to Syktyvkar Memorial: "Who Will Remember If I Forget -- 2. The "Brotherhood of Zeks": Constructing Community and Identity through Memoirs -- 3. Alternative Forms of Autobiography: Konstantin Ivanov's Letters and Art -- 4. "How I Remained a Human Being": Elena Markova's Spiritual Resistance Inside and Outside the Gulag -- 5. Local Newspapers and the Production of Cultural Memory in Komi, 1987-2021 -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

From 1929 to 1958, hundreds of thousands of prisoners and exiles from across the Soviet Union were sent to the harsh yet resource-rich Komi Republic in Russia's Far North.When the Soviet Union collapsed, former prisoners sent their autobiographies to Komi's local branches of the anti-Stalinist Memorial Society and history museums.

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GULAG


1991-2021


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Kollektives Gedächtnis
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Russland
Komi

Memorialization-Russia (Federation). Forced labor-Soviet Union. Political prisoners-Soviet Union-History. Internment camp inmates-Soviet Union.


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