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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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Sacred or Secular? ‘Memorial’, the Russian Orthodox Church, and the Contested Commemoration of Soviet Repressions [PDF]

Europe-Asia Studies, 2015
AbstractThe reconstruction of the history from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s of Soviet repressions critically influenced the social formation of Gulag memory in Russia. Amongst those re-narrating the past, the ‘Memorial’ Society and the Russian Orthodox Church most actively shaped the collective memory of Soviet repressions, trying to establish multi-
Elly Harrowell, Dominique Moran, Zuzanna Bogumił   +2 more
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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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The Legacies of Soviet Repression and Displacement

, 2023
This book explores the ways in which memories of Stalin-era repression and displacement manifest across times and places through diverse forms of materialization. The chapters of the book explore the concrete mobilities of life stories, letters, memoirs, literature, objects, and bodies reflecting Soviet repression and violence across borders of ...
Samira Saramo, Ulla Savolainen
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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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THE POLITICS OF MEMORY IN THE PRICARPATHIANS REGARDING SOVIET REPRESSION IN 1939–1953

Problems of humanities. History, 2020
Summary. The purpose of the study the author reveals the process of formation of the politics of memory in Prykarpattia regarding Stalin՚s repressions in 1939–1953. The research methodology is based on the principles of historicism, systematics, verification, objectivity, as well as the use of general scientific (analysis, synthesis, generalization ...
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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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