Remembering the Gulag in post-Soviet Magadan
This essay explores the relationship between place and memory in the former Gulag periphery of Magadan in northeastern Russia. Located on the coast of the Okhotsk Sea, the city of Magadan emerged as a gateway to the sparsely populated region after the discovery of gold in the late 1920s. Today, a hu...
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ftunivedinojs:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/475 2023-05-15T17:05:09+02:00 Remembering the Gulag in post-Soviet Magadan Prell, Norman 2013-12-18 application/pdf application/zip image/jpeg http://journals.ed.ac.uk/unfamiliar/article/view/475 https://doi.org/10.2218/unfamiliar.v3i2.475 eng eng University of Edinburgh http://journals.ed.ac.uk/unfamiliar/article/view/475/1031 http://journals.ed.ac.uk/unfamiliar/article/view/475/2629 http://journals.ed.ac.uk/unfamiliar/article/view/475/2630 http://journals.ed.ac.uk/unfamiliar/article/view/475/2631 http://journals.ed.ac.uk/unfamiliar/article/view/475/2635 http://journals.ed.ac.uk/unfamiliar/article/view/475/2636 10.2218/unfamiliar.v3i2.475.s108 10.2218/unfamiliar.v3i2.475.s111 10.2218/unfamiliar.v3i2.475.s110 10.2218/unfamiliar.v3i2.475.s116 10.2218/unfamiliar.v3i2.475.s117 http://journals.ed.ac.uk/unfamiliar/article/view/475 doi:10.2218/unfamiliar.v3i2.475 The Unfamiliar; Vol 3 No 2 (2013) 2050-778X 10.2218/tu.v3i2.2013 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2013 ftunivedinojs https://doi.org/10.2218/unfamiliar.v3i2.475 https://doi.org/10.2218/tu.v3i2.2013 2022-10-20T20:03:27Z This essay explores the relationship between place and memory in the former Gulag periphery of Magadan in northeastern Russia. Located on the coast of the Okhotsk Sea, the city of Magadan emerged as a gateway to the sparsely populated region after the discovery of gold in the late 1920s. Today, a huge monument, the Mask of Sorrow, raised upon a hill on the margin of the city, commemorates the hundreds of thousands of prison- ers who were shipped to Magadan during the dictatorship of Stalin to work in the region’s newly established gold mines. Crucial to the region’s development was the construction of the legendary Kolyma Road between the port of Magadan and the industrial areas at the up- per Kolyma River. Built by prisoners under the most adverse conditions, this road is often referred to as ‘Road of Bones’. This essay demonstrates how the Mask of Sorrow and the Kolyma Road, during particular commemorative events, participate in the enactment of a historical landscape that bears the potential for a ritual return of the victims of the Gulag. Article in Journal/Newspaper kolyma river okhotsk sea The University of Edinburgh: Journal Hosting Service Kolyma ENVELOPE(161.000,161.000,69.500,69.500) Magadan ENVELOPE(150.803,150.803,59.564,59.564) Monument The ENVELOPE(-57.883,-57.883,-63.726,-63.726) Okhotsk The Unfamiliar 3 2 |
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This essay explores the relationship between place and memory in the former Gulag periphery of Magadan in northeastern Russia. Located on the coast of the Okhotsk Sea, the city of Magadan emerged as a gateway to the sparsely populated region after the discovery of gold in the late 1920s. Today, a huge monument, the Mask of Sorrow, raised upon a hill on the margin of the city, commemorates the hundreds of thousands of prison- ers who were shipped to Magadan during the dictatorship of Stalin to work in the region’s newly established gold mines. Crucial to the region’s development was the construction of the legendary Kolyma Road between the port of Magadan and the industrial areas at the up- per Kolyma River. Built by prisoners under the most adverse conditions, this road is often referred to as ‘Road of Bones’. This essay demonstrates how the Mask of Sorrow and the Kolyma Road, during particular commemorative events, participate in the enactment of a historical landscape that bears the potential for a ritual return of the victims of the Gulag. |
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