TURNING SITES OF MASSIVE REPRESSIONS INTO MEMORIALS

• Authors: Cherkaeva Olga
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper is devoted to memorial complexes with museum exhibits of the victims of political repressions in Russia. They took place in the 1930th. Nowadays there are two great memorial complexes. One of them is Mednoe Memorial Complex not far from Tver. The second one is Katyn Memorial Komplex situated not fat from Smolensk. They are affiliated with the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia. There is one more memorial complex “Butovo Shooting Range” in Moscow region. A new museum exposition will be shown there. Its territory belongs to the Russian Orthodox Church, but at the same time, it was recognized as a historical place. Despite the form of ownership, those memorial complexes work with different categories of visitors and deal with historical memory. Being part of memorial a museum reveals its information significance.

Keywords

EN

MEMORIAL COMPLEX; MUSEUM; MASS GRAVES; HISTORICAL MEMORY; MONUMENT; RUSSIA

• Publisher: Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo, o.z.
• Journal: Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 67 – 76

Contributors

author

Cherkaeva Olga

• Russian State University for the Humanities, Faculty of Art Hist, Miusskaya sq. 6, GSP-3, 125993 Moscow, Russia