Name: Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia
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Author: Gessen, Masha ; Friedman, Misha
ISBN: 9780997722963

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Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia

Type

Physical Book

Author

Masha Gessen

De… (fotógrafo)

Misha Friedman

Publisher

Columbia Global Reports

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

156

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780997722963

Synopsis "Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia "

"A book that belongs on the shelf alongside The Gulag Archipelago. -- Kirkus Reviews "A short, haunting and beautifully written book." -- The Wall Street Journal 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 barely sketched and the number of its victims remains unknown. Has the Gulag been forgotten? Writer Masha Gessen and photographer Misha Friedman set out across Russia in search of the memory of the Gulag. They journey from Moscow to Sandarmokh, a forested site of mass executions during Stalin's Great Terror; to the only Gulag camp turned into a museum, outside of the city of Perm in the Urals; and to Kolyma, where prisoners worked in deadly mines in the remote reaches of the Far East. They find that in Vladimir Putin's Russia, where Stalin is remembered as a great leader, Soviet terror has not been forgotten: it was never remembered in the first place.

Masha Gessen

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She is the author of the best seller The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (2012). She has written ten non-fiction books, her most recent work The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2007; she has also written about the rights of the LGBTI population and is considered the leading LGBTI activist in Russia.

Editor at The New Yorker since 2007. She has contributed to media outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.

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