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Memory of Soviet Repressions in the Kazakhstan Lithuanian Diaspora: Interpretations, Practices, Contexts

Genocidas ir Rezistencija
In this article, the focus is on the memory of repressions in the Kazakhstan Lithuanian diaspora, a large part of which consists of the descendants of Lithuanians who were subject to repression. Based on data from a survey of semi-structured interviews,
Irena Šutinienė
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Displacing the “inconvenient past”: the memory of repressions and genocides of the Soviet period in current Russia

Genocidas ir Rezistencija
The paper provides a review of the shifts occurring in politics of memory regarding the political repressions of the Soviet period within post-Soviet Russia, spanning from the early 1990s to the present day.
Aleksey Kamenskikh
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The GULAG experience in cultural narratives and collective identity of post-Soviet Lithuania [PDF]

Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2021
In this paper, the tendencies of rethinking the GULAG in the cultural memory of post-Soviet Lithuania (after 1990) are analyzed. The sources for the analysis were represented by ego-documents, literary works, and visual arts (movies and comics).
Čepaitienė R.
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The Phenomenon of Post-Memory and Its Aesthetics on the Example of Pyotr Belov’s “Anti-Stalinist Cycle” [PDF]

Художественная культура, 2023
The article is dedicated to the analysis of numerous paintings by the Soviet artist Pyotr A. Belov (1929–1988). For the first time, these artworks were presented in Moscow in 1988, at the posthumous exhibition of the artist, revealing complex issues in ...
Podlednov Denis D., Kazantseva Elena D.
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Memory in Family: Theoretical Aspects and Insights from the Study on Past Regime’s Memory Transmission

Politologija, 2022
Difficult state-level questions of how to remember previous regimes are particularly linked with the „consumer“ side – specific areas of mnemonic socialization, such as families.
Liucija Vervečkienė
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Letters, Memory, Language: about Russian Transcultural Literature

Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2023
The author of the article focuses on the image of letters as a symbol of national historical memory — on the example of Sukhbat Aflatuni’s story “Clay letters, floating apples”, where the letters act not only in their direct meaning, they are the ...
Eleonora F. Shafranskaya
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Human in the world of culture: the great patriotic war in the historical and cultural heritage of northeast of Russia (on the example of Yakutia) [PDF]

SHS Web of Conferences, 2019
The historical and cultural heritage, expressed in monuments, architectural structures, dedicated to the Great Patriotic War, today is significant. The purpose of the article is to determine the role of society in perpetuating the memory of the Great ...
Sivtseva Saassylana, Parfenova Olga
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Famous and Forgotten: Soviet Sociology and the Nature of Intellectual Achievement under Totalitarianism

Serendipities, 2020
For decades Soviet and later post-Soviet sociology was dominated by a cohort of scholars born between 1927–1930 (Grushin, Kon, Levada, Ossipov, Yadov, Zaslavskaya). The origins of their prominence and the character of their recognition offers a puzzle as
Mikhail Sokolov
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Eclipsing Stalin: The GULAG History Museum in Moscow as a Manifestation of Russia’s Official Memory of Soviet Repression

Problems of Post-Communism, 2021
This article analyzes the temporary (2015) and permanent (2018) expositions of Moscow’s GULAG History Museum (GHM), and the documents surrounding its creation. The analysis demonstrates two key findings. First, focusing on the Gulag and omitting post-Gulag Soviet repression, the GHM ultimately works to historicize the former.
Andrei Zavadski, Vera Dubina
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Russian and Ukrainian villages during the “Great Turning Point”: history and memory

Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Гуманитарные науки, 2022
Background. For a long time the violent nature of collectivization was hushed up in the USSR, any mention of the hunger of 1932–1933 was prohibited. However, despite the prohibitions and censorship, the people’s memory of those years events and the ...
I.E. Koznova
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