Last week Russian historian Mikhail Suprun was arrested by Russia’s FSB security service for – as Truthdig put it – daring to study Russian history; more specifically, Stalin’s gulags. Suprun’s archives were confiscated; a police official who provided access to archive documents about gulag victims was also arrested. Suprun faces up to four years [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘history’
May 8, 2009
Archives as Medium
I recently stumbled upon Essays: Archives as Medium , on the web site Old Messengers, New Media: The Legacy of Innis and McLuhan (in turn part of Library and Archives Canada online.) From Lance Strate’s essay The Medium is the Memory:
March 27, 2009
Garbage bag of history
There’s a wonderful quote in a Talk of the Town piece in this week’s New Yorker. The piece covers the opening of an exhibit of work by the late Pulitzer Prize-winning Vietnam War photographer Eddie Adams; many of the images have never been displayed before, having been not long ago discovered in plastic garbage bags in the garage of Adams’ first wife.
December 19, 2008
“Treatment of History a Bellwether of Human Rights”
The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience has distributed this statement pertaining to the recent raid and seizure of Human Rights Center Memorial’s archive (thanks Bryan and Sam for forwarding):
