Remembering the Victims of Political Repression: the Purges in Mordoviya

Ilic, Melanie; Joyce, Christopher

doi:10.1057/9780230597334_8

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Dubravlag In Russia's Geography Of Punishment1

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“…22 Vremya i zhizn ', 15 August 1991, p. 3. than other camps but it does not include the deaths among the unknown number of prisoners-of-war who were incarcerated in Mordoviya in the 1940s when the authorities admit that 'mistakes were committed' 23 or alleged mass executions by NKVD execution squads. 24 Ilic and Joyce (2006) have calculated that between 1921 and 1960 there were 1,172 local victims of the repression who were executed by the allunion NKVD in Mordoviya who will not have been included in the statistics for prisoners executed.…”

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Patriotic Discourses in Russia's Penal Peripheries: Remembering the MordovanGulag

Pallot

Piacentini

Moran

2009

Europe-Asia Studies

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Using materials gathered during field work in the penal region in the southwest corner of the Republic of Mordoviya in 2007, the authors examine the official representations of the history of the Mordovan gulag from 1930 to the present day. Through an analysis of the penal authority's institutional newspaper, its museum and anniversary celebrations marking the founding of the Mordovan gulag, the authors argue that a stress in the official history on continuity and tradition of service is evidence of growing confidence of this part of the security apparatus after their loss of status in the 1990s associated with the collapse of the penal economy and negative comment by international monitors and domestic penal reformers.

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