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Madeleine Reeves
Steven A. Barnes. Death and Redemption, Jehanne M. Gheith and Katherine R. Jolluck. Gulag Voices: Oral Histories of Soviet Detention and Exile, Olga Ulturgasheva. Narrating the Future in Siberia

  • Steven A. Barnes. Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. 368 pp. 
    ISBN 978-0-691-15112-0.
  • Jehanne M. Gheith and Katherine R. Jolluck. Gulag Voices: Oral Histories of Soviet Detention and Exile. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 276 pp. 
    ISBN 978-0-230-61062-0.
  • Olga Ulturgasheva. Narrating the Future in Siberia: Childhood, Adolescence and Autobiography Among the Eveny. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2012. 210 pp. 
    ISBN 978-0-85745-766-0.

Madeleine Reeves.
Address for correspondence: Department of Social Anthropology, Arthur Lewis Building, 2.054, University of Manchester,
Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK. madeleine.reeves@manchester.ac.uk.

A short documentary film produced in Germany in 2009 shows young people in Karaganda Oblast of Kazakhstan being asked about their knowledge of the vast Karlag labor camp that spanned much of the region between 1930 and 1959. The film,1 made under the auspices of the joint Russian-German-Kazakh project “Traces of Forced Labor in Post-Soviet Towns,” reveals a young population seemingly indifferent to the regime of incarceration that contributed to the construction of their city. “No, never heard of it,” says one young Karaganda resident categorically when asked if she knows about the Karlag labor camp. “Karlag … I don’t know where it was, but somewhere around here, in this oblast,” says a teenager evasively to the camera, gesturing around him. One young man, quizzed on a park bench, points out that the Central Department Store, TsUM, was built by Karlag prisoners, along with the House of Culture and several other city landmarks. His friend, sitting alongside him, turns his gaze away from the camera, seemingly embarrassed by this admission. Few young people seemed entirely comfortable answering questions about their knowledge of the past, traces of which lie all about them in the architecture of the city and the surrounding landscape. The documentary film and the project of which it forms a part, funded by the German Foundation EVZ (which stands for “Remembrance, Responsibility, and Future”), raise questions about how individuals, communities, and states deal with what Sharon MacDonald calls “difficult heritage.” For MacDonald, a difficult heritage is defined as a “past that is recognized as meaningful in the present but that is also awkward and contested for public reconciliation with a positive, self-affirming contemporary identity” (2009:1).



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