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...
Published in: | The Unfamiliar |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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University of Edinburgh
2013
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Online Access: | http://journals.ed.ac.uk/unfamiliar/article/view/475 https://doi.org/10.2218/unfamiliar.v3i2.475 |