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Never remember : searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia /

A haunting literary and visual journey deep into Russia's past, and present. The Gulag was a monstrous network of labor camps that held and killed millions of prisoners from the 1930s to the 1950s. More than half a century after the end of Stalinist terror, the geography of the Gulag has been b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gessen, Masha (Author)
Other Authors: Friedman, Misha (photographer (expression))
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia Global Reports, [2018]
Subjects:
GULag NKVD > History.
Political prisoners > Soviet Union > History > 20th century.
Concentration camps > Soviet Union > History > 20th century.
Concentration camps > Soviet Union > History > 20th century > Pictorial works.
Political persecution > Soviet Union > History.
Collective memory > Russia (Federation)
Memory > Political aspects > Russia (Federation)
Permʹ (Russia) > Pictorial works.
HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue. Looking for Wallenberg
  • Part 1. Sandarmokh
  • The bodies in the forest
  • The last daughter
  • Part 2. PERM-36
  • The last camp
  • Sergei Kovaliov
  • Memory-building
  • Part 3. Kolyma
  • Butugychag
  • Inna Gribanova
  • Invisible memory
  • Epilogue. The sculpture garden.