Never Remember cover art

Never Remember

Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia

 Preview

Get 30 days of Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30-day free trial. Cancel monthly.
Try for £0.00
More purchase options
Buy Now for £7.99

Buy Now for £7.99

About this listen

 "A book that belongs on the shelf alongside The Gulag Archipelago. -- Kirkus Reviews

"A short, haunting and beautifully written book." -- The Wall Street Journal

The Gulag was a monstrous network of labor camps that held and killed millions of prisoners from the 1930s to the 1950s. More than half a century after the end of Stalinist terror, the geography of the Gulag has been barely sketched and the number of its victims remains unknown. Has the Gulag been forgotten? Writer Masha Gessen and photographer Misha Friedman set out across Russia in search of the memory of the Gulag. They journey from Moscow to Sandarmokh, a forested site of mass executions during Stalin's Great Terror; to the only Gulag camp turned into a museum, outside of the city of Perm in the Urals; and to Kolyma, where prisoners worked in deadly mines in the remote reaches of the Far East. They find that in Vladimir Putin's Russia, where Stalin is remembered as a great leader, Soviet terror has not been forgotten: it was never remembered in the first place. Russia World Soviet Union Stalin
All stars
Most relevant
Mashs Gessen allows us to join her sombre pilgrimage to the sites of Stalin's terror.

Beautiful and thoughtful.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Very good and relevant! ..a bit short, and partly felt like a summary of Anne Applebaums "Gulag", However this book includes some more recent developments, and more recent "perspectives".

Highly recommended

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.