Sandormokh. Drama of meanings

This book talks about how a long -term search for traces of the “missing stage” - 1111 of the Solovetsky special appointment prisoners taken out of the islands in October 1937 and without a trace - led to the discovery of the largest burial of the shot victims of large terror in the northwestern of Russia 1937-1938 . But the story did not end this, but only began: around the memorial cemetery created here, a tight knot of "conflicts of memory" - obvious and implicit clashes of different concepts of understanding the Soviet past.
The book is built as a "intellectual adventure" and written at the junction of several genres: the reader will find in it elements of historical research, cultural analysis, memoir narrative and journalism.
The book of Irina Fliga is undoubtedly unique among works devoted to Stalinist repression.
editor Oleg Nikolaev
... Today in Russia there is no memory of the state terror of the Soviet era, instead of it we have inheritance of the past.
Someone takes on the legacy of the victims, someone is the legacy of the killers. And while things are so, Sandormokh is not a place of memory. Sandormokh is a place of a crime that remained not only unpunished, but also, in fact, unnamed ...
author of Fliga I