| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 290 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Letters to Syktyvkar Memorial: "Who Will Remember If I Forget?" -- The "Brotherhood of Zeks": Constructing Community and Identity through Memoirs -- Alternative Forms of Autobiography: Konstantin Ivanov's Letters and Art -- "How I Remained a Human Being": Elena Markova's Spiritual Resistance Inside and Outside the Gulag -- Local Newspapers and the Production of Cultural Memory in Komi, 1987-2021 |
| Summary |
"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. When the Soviet Union collapsed, former prisoners sent their autobiographies to Komi's local branches of the anti-Stalinist Memorial Society and history museums.Utilizing these previously unavailable personal records, alongside newspapers, photographs, interviews, and other non-state archival sources, After the Gulag sheds new light not only on how former prisoners experienced life after release but also how they laid the foundations for the future commemoration of Komi's dark past. Bound by a "camp brotherhood," they used informal social networks to provide mutual support amid state and societal oppression. Decades later, they sought rehabilitation with the help of the newly formed Memorial Society-the civic organization largely responsible for the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union. In sharing their life stories and family archives with Memorial, they sustained an alternate history of the Soviet Union.Offering an unprecedented look at the legacies of mass repression under Stalin, After the Gulag explores how ordinary political prisoners from across the Soviet Union navigated life after release, using memoirs, letters, and art to translate their experiences and shape the politics of memory in post-Soviet Russia"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 17, 2023) |
| Subject |
Internment camp inmates -- Soviet Union
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Political prisoners -- Soviet Union -- History
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Forced labor -- Soviet Union
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Memorialization -- Russia (Federation)
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HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet.
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Forced labor
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Internment camp inmates
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Memorialization
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Political prisoners
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Russia (Federation)
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Soviet Union
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2023017101 |
| ISBN |
0253067510 |
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9780253067524 |
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0253067529 |
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9780253067517 |
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