{"title":"Exhibitions on Soviet Repressions at the Moscow NGO Memorial (2011–2021): Transforming Family Memory into Cultural Memory","authors":"Sofia Tchouikina","doi":"10.1080/10758216.2022.2090380","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article analyzes the curation of the history of Soviet repressions at the temporary exhibitions organized by the International Memorial NGO in Moscow from 2011 to 2021. Compared with other Russian museums, Memorial relies mainly on family archives and family memories. The repressions are treated as a collective experience that affected not only victims, those executed or imprisoned, but also their relatives and descendants. Seen from this perspective, the carceral past is directly linked to today’s population. The article explores the various ways in which Memorial draws on families’ memories of repression to create a museum statement.","PeriodicalId":46824,"journal":{"name":"Problems of Post-Communism","volume":"70 1","pages":"557 - 569"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9000,"publicationDate":"2022-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Problems of Post-Communism","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2022.2090380","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"POLITICAL SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT The article analyzes the curation of the history of Soviet repressions at the temporary exhibitions organized by the International Memorial NGO in Moscow from 2011 to 2021. Compared with other Russian museums, Memorial relies mainly on family archives and family memories. The repressions are treated as a collective experience that affected not only victims, those executed or imprisoned, but also their relatives and descendants. Seen from this perspective, the carceral past is directly linked to today’s population. The article explores the various ways in which Memorial draws on families’ memories of repression to create a museum statement.
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