How to Transmit the Experience of the Gulag by means of Historical Exhibition: The Right of Correspondence in Memorial Society in Moscow Cover Image

Как рассказать о ГУЛАГе языком исторической выставки: "Право переписки" в московском "Мемориале"
How to Transmit the Experience of the Gulag by means of Historical Exhibition: The Right of Correspondence in Memorial Society in Moscow

Author(s): Sofia Tchouikina
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Центр независимых социологических исследований (ЦНСИ)
Keywords: Politics of History in Russia; Hostorical Exhibition; Gulag; Letters from the Gulag; Political Prisoners in the USSR; Mass Repressions in the USSR; Soviet Dissidents

Summary/Abstract: In contemporary Russia, nongovernmental organizations are in charge of the museification of the former Gulag camps and of the commemoration of the victims of Soviet-era repressions, while the state's action in this sphere is barely present.

  • Issue Year: 7/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 158-183
  • Page Count: 26