Memorial: The Enduring Battle Against Stalinism in Post-Soviet Russia

Nanci Adler

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-61493-5_275-1

Memorial: The Enduring Battle Against Stalinism in Post-Soviet Russia

Nanci Adler

NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies

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Aside from symbolic reparations, post-Soviet Russian governments made no effort to confront their repressive past. No perpetrator was tried, there is no institute of national memory, the school textbooks relate a political narrative, and the current regime continues to repress opposing opinions. In the absence of governmental initiatives to acknowledge and redress state-sponsored repression, the International Memorial Society (also known as Memorial), an anti-Stalinist organization, undertook the task. It challenged the arbitrary use of authority and demanded accountability for both the political crimes of the predecessor regime and the human rights violations of the current regime. Its decades of work on Stalinist repression evoked domestic and international responses. In 2021, the Putin regime banned Memorial, and, in 2022, it was co-awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Originele taal-2	Engels
Titel	The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict
Redacteuren	Ihab Saloul, Britt Baillie
Plaats van productie	Cham
Uitgeverij	Palgrave Macmillan
Pagina's	1-5
ISBN van elektronische versie	978-3-030-61493-5
ISBN van geprinte versie	978-3-030-61493-5
DOI's	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61493-5_275-1
Status	E-pub ahead of print - 2025

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