Turning Sites of Massive Repressions into Memorials
Turning Sites of Massive Repressions into Memorials
Author(s): Olga CherkaevaSubject(s): Museology & Heritage Studies, Recent History (1900 till today), Studies in violence and power, History of Communism
Published by: Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, Filozofická fakulta
Keywords: the memorial complex; a museum; site of mass graves; victims of political repressions; historical memory; monument;
Summary/Abstract: This paper is devoted to memorial complexes with museum exhibits of the victims of political repressions in Russia. They took place in the 1930th. Nowadays there are two great memorial complexes. One of them is Mednoe Memorial Complex not far from Tver sity. The second one is Katyn Memorial Komplex situated not fat from Smolensk. They are affiliated with the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia. There is one more memorial complex “Butovo Shooting Range” in Moscow region. A new museum exposition will be shown there. Its territory belongs to the Russian Orthodox Church, but at the same time, it was recognized as a historical place. Despite the form of ownership, those memorial complexes work with different categories of visitors and deal with historical memory. Being part of memorial a museum reveals its information significance.
Journal: Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo
- Issue Year: 6/2018
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 67-76
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English