History of Political Repressions in the Expositions of the National Museum of the Republic of Komi
History of Political Repressions in the Expositions of the National Museum of the Republic of Komi
Author(s): Igor Zherebtsov, Svetlana V. BanduraSubject(s): Museology & Heritage Studies, Political history, Studies in violence and power
Published by: Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, Filozofická fakulta
Keywords: history; political repressions; Republic of Komi; Gulag; museum expositions; intelligentsia;
Summary/Abstract: This paper introduces the history of 20th-century political repressions that had significant influence on the economic and social-cultural development of the Republic of Komi and provides a brief overview of museum collections connected with the Gulag system which created in the 1940s. It is shown how the history of political repressions was reflected in the expositions of the National museum of the Republic of Komi (leading museum in the European Northeast of Russia) since the first exhibitions which took place in late 1980s up to the present.
Journal: Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo
- Issue Year: 2/2014
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 9-19
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English