Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia
    Unavailable
    Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia
    Unavailable
    Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia
    Audiobook3 hours

    Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia

    Written by Misha Friedman

    4.5/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    Read the ebook instead

    About this audiobook

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMar 5, 2019
    ISBN9780593103845
    Author

    Misha Friedman

    Misha Friedman is an award-winning documentary photographer whose photographs have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the New Yorker, among other publications. The author of Lyudmila and Natasha: Russian Lives and Two Women in Their Time: The Belarus Free Theatre and the Art of Resistance (both published by The New Press), he lives in New York City.

    Related to Never Remember

    Related audiobooks

    History For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Soundtrack For A Siege

      Jan 10, 2023

      Soundtrack For A Siege
      10 min read

    • Article

      Triumphs of Pseudoscientific Reasoning: On Osip Mandelstam’s ‘Journey to Armenia’

      Oct 8, 2018

      1. In 1922, the same year the USSR entered the world, the poet Osip Mandelstam moved to Moscow, hoping to establish himself as a leading voice of the Socialist utopia he’d supported since his teens. Instead, he found himself an outcast. In early Sovi

      10 min read

    • Article

      Don’t Blame Dostoyevsky

      Jul 24, 2022

      Don’t Blame Dostoyevsky
      5 min read

    • Article

      On Moscow’s Doorstep

      Oct 2, 2018

      THE LAST PATCHES OF WINTER SNOW crunch beneath my feet as I make my way through the birch forests along the banks of the Vyazemka River. With the new foliage of spring bursting forth, it is hard to imagine the blustery days of Russia’s infamous winte

      4 min read

    • Article

      Paperback In The USSR

      Sep 1, 2019

      THE SECRETS WE KEPT By Lara Prescott KNOPF $36.95; 369 PAGES When I taught American literature at a Soviet university in 1980, I managed to bring along some books that were banned by the Kremlin: Catch-22, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Slaughterho

      3 min read

    • Article

      Speak, Memory

      Jul 5, 2023

      MY first English Christmas was spent in Cambridge. The carol service at King’s College Chapel. A heavy snowfall. Icy grandeur. It was beautiful. It was cold. ‘There is nothing between the flat lands of East Anglia and Siberia except Ely Cathedral,’ m

      3 min read

    • Article

      Stalin Erased One Generation Of Ukraine’s Artists. Now Putin Is Killing Another – Including My Friend | Charlotte Higgins

      Jul 14, 2023

      On 12 October last year, I met up in Kyiv with the novelist and war crimes investigator Victoria Amelina, who died on 1 July from injuries sustained in an attack on a Kramatorsk pizza restaurant. We had first encountered each other some days earlier

      4 min read

    • Article

      Ukraine’s Patriotic Master

      Apr 1, 2022

      Ukraine’s Patriotic Master
      3 min read

    • Article

      Stalin’s Last Laugh

      Jun 30, 2022

      THE MUSEUM DEDICATED TO JOSEPH Vissarionovič Stalin in Gori, Georgia, has something of a reputation. This tribute to the late Soviet tyrant draws extreme reactions from people — often angry ones. There’s nothing obviously wrong with Gori itself, the

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Classic Book

      Feb 20, 2020

      This was the first book of modern Chinese history that I ever read, back when I was just 16 years old. Although I must have read hundreds more since then, I still think that this is one of the most influential and important books on Chinese history t

      1 min read

    • Article

      Editor’s Pick

      Feb 9, 2020

      Editor’s Pick
      1 min read

    • Article

      The Secret Art Society

      Aug 5, 2022

      The Secret Art Society
      3 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Sonia Jaffe Robbins

      Dec 14, 2022

      Sonia Jaffe Robbins reflects on 2022 through the books she read. The post A Year in Reading: Sonia Jaffe Robbins appeared first on The Millions.

      6 min read

    • Article

      Time Traveller

      Jul 28, 2023

      Time Traveller
      3 min read

    • Article

      Imperial Exiles

      Dec 28, 2022

      Imperial Exiles
      3 min read

    • Article

      Gulag History Museum

      Oct 21, 2021

      The Gulag History Museum, located just outside the Garden Ring Road in Moscow, somberly memorializes the 15 million to 18 million Soviet citizens imprisoned and 1.5 million murdered by the communist regime in the vast system of forced labor camps kno

      1 min read

    • Article

      The World’s Greatest Novel?

      May 8, 2020

      The World’s Greatest Novel?
      2 min read

    Reviews for Never Remember

    4.5/5

    5 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words