Author: Masha Gessen File Type: epub A haunting literary and visual journey deep into Russias past -- and present. 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 Stalins 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 Putins Russia, where Stalin is remembered as a great leader, Soviet terror has not been forgotten it was never remembered in the first place. **Review Under Putin--whose motto might as well be Make Russia Great Again--Stalins rule is now remembered as a time of glory and order....It is a grim reminder that once again, as in the 1930s, all over the world authoritarian strongmen are riding high. -- Adam Hochschild, The New York Times Book Review A short, haunting and beautifully written book. -- The Wall Street Journal Gessens delicate prose and deft skill as an interviewer combine with Friedmans haunting photography to produce a partial record of the ruins of Soviet prison camps in Sandarmokh, Perm and Kolyma, and of the fraught memorialization efforts that followed perestroika and the Soviet Unions collapse. -- Times Literary Supplement The author Masha Gessen and the photographer Misha Friedman have done what they could in Never Remember Searching for Stalins Gulags in Putins Russia to combat the erasure of memory regarding the Gulag. They have accomplished this in two distinct but complementary waysGessen by interviewing descendants of those imprisoned as well as other private citizens who have in various ways done what they could to document and preserve the record of mass incarceration and state-murder, and Friedman by photographing the ghostlyand certainly hauntingremains of the camps.--The Daily Beast A book that belongs on the shelf alongside The Gulag Archipelago.-- Kirkus Reviews Drawing on years of interviews, research, and travel, Gessen and photographer Friedman reflect on complex Russian attitudes to the legacy of the gulag in this vital collection of essays and photographs....Friedmans moody, panoramic black-and-white photos of the memorial sites convey a narrative thats fragmented, blurry, and ultimately incomplete, perfectly underscoring Gessens text. The combination is a powerful meditation on contemporary Russia as seen through its relationship to the past. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) About the Author Masha Gessen is a Russian-American journalist and the bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin. Gessens books include The Future is History How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, winner of the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction, and The Man Without a Face The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin. She is the recipient of numerous other awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Carnegie Fellowship, and her work appears regularly in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, and Slate. A longtime resident of Moscow, Gessen now lives in New York City.

Author: Barry Sheils File Type: pdf This book brings together the work of scholars and writer-practitioners of psychoanalysis to consider the legacy of two of Sigmund Freuds most important metapsychological papers On Narcissism An Introduction (1914) and Mourning and Melancholia (1917 [1915]). These twin papers, conceived in the context of unprecedented social and political turmoil, mark a point in Freuds metapsychological project wherein the themes of loss and of psychic violence were becoming incontrovertible facts in the story of subject formation. Taking as their concern the difficulty of setting apart the inner and the outer worlds, as well as the difficulty of preserving an image of the coherently boundaried subject, the psychoanalytic frameworks of narcissism and melancholia provide the background coordinates for the volumes contributors to analyse contemporary subjectivities in new psychosocial contexts. This collection will be of great interest to all scholars and practitioners of psychoanalysis and the psychotherapies, social and cultural theory, gender and sexuality studies, politics, and psychosocial studies.