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Jean Leґvesque
Alain Blum, Marta Craveri, and Valérie Nivelon, eds. Déportés en URSS: Récits d’Européens au goulag

Alain Blum, Marta Craveri, and Valérie Nivelon, eds. Déportés en URSS: Récits d’Européens au goulag. Paris: Éditions Autrement, 2012. 311 pp. + CD. ISBN 978-2-7467-3146-2.

Jean Lévesque.
Address for correspondence: Département d’histoire,
Université du Québec à Montréal, C.P. 8888, succ.
Centre-ville, Montréal, QС H3C 3P8, Canada.
levesque.jean@uqam.ca.

This collection brings together the accounts of Europeans deported to the Soviet Gulag, understood both as labor camps and forced relocation settlements. It is the result of a wonderful multimedia project that draws on the expertise of a dozen scholars from eight countries. Thanks to their work, we have the testimony of more than 160 individuals who were victims of the Soviet practice of forced deportation from 1939 to 1950. The project is multimedia in that it stems from a Radio France Internationale series that presented the interviews of deportees and an outstanding website. The latter allows the general public to trace the experience of deportees with the help of excerpts from filmed interviews, personal papers like photographs and diaries, as well as maps and official documents. This allows viewers to appreciate the individual experiences of deportees in their wider historical context. The volume under review is a companion to the radio series. As a pedagogical resource and a medium to promote better public understanding of this historical question, the website is first in its class. To anyone teaching the Stalinist period or any topic linked to forced deportations in the twentieth century, the website, European Memories of the Gulag (museum.gulagmemories.eu), will be of great service, and it is easily one of the best multimedia experiments I have encountered, like the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University (www.gulaghistory.org) or the Moscow-based Memorial Society (www. memo.ru/museum), despite the fact that they have their own objectives. It is well documented, includes many photographs, and is easy to navigate. Yet it includes three or four times more narratives than contained in the companion volume under review here, and users can choose to follow a life story summarized by a quote from the interviewee, like the Lithuanian Antanas Seinkalis who states sarcastically: “Thanks to Stalin, I visited the USSR!”



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