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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.
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The aim of this article is to show how the penal estate inherited from the Soviet Union has reproduced specific penal experiences in the Russian Federation.
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This article explores modern Siberian discursive practices of interethnic divisions among prisoners, which are still based on the Soviet model of a multiethnic prisoner population.
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This essay argues that the Gulag was fixed neither in space nor time. Following recent trends in historiography, it describes the close connections between the Gulag and Soviet society as a whole, using the example of Vorkuta, an Arctic camp complex that was initially consructed in the 1930s.
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Documents depicting personal experiences of Gulag prisoners (diaries, correspondence, and menoirs) played an important role in disseminating information about the Soviet labor camps from the very beginning of their existence.
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This essay is devoted to the problem of how victims of the political terror in the USSR and prisoners of the Gulag formed social identities.
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This essay examines how writing letters to his wife helped the Soviet illustrator Grigorii Filippovskii, who in 1938 was sentenced to five years of camp labor, to survive the Gulag.
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Based on the analysis of the diaries of two Soviet teenagers whose parents were victims of Stalinist repressions, this essay attempts to evaluate how the authors of the diaries processed their traumatic experiences and to what extent these experiences affected their identity.
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