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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Published in:The Unfamiliar
Main Author: Prell, Norman
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 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