[aaus-list] Historic archives seized by Russian police in St. Petersburg

[Natalia Pylypiuk]

Dear Colleagues,

These are disturbing news that could very well affect not only Russia,  
but her neighbors as well.
Apologies to those for whom this is a double posting.

Regards,

Natalia Pylypiuk
University of Alberta


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Slava Paperno <sp27 at CORNELL.EDU>
> Date: December 5, 2008 10:29:59 AM MST (CA)
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Subject: [SEELANGS] historic archives seized by Russian police in  
> St. Petersburg
> Reply-To: "SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and  
> Literatures list" <SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu>
>
> Yesterday, December 4, 2008, police in St. Petersburg, Russia,  
> seized the entire archives of Memorial, a research center that for  
> over twenty years has been collecting data on the criminal acts of  
> various Soviet governments.
>
> Here are some of the links with information on this event:
>
> http://news.yandex.ru/yandsearch?cl4url=lenta.ru%2Fnews%2F2008%2F12%2F04%2Fmask%2F
>
> http://www.memo.ru/2008/12/04/Saint_Petersburg.htm
>
> Interested scholars probably already know about the new  
> "obshchestvennaya organizatsiya" called Istoricheskaya pamyat' that  
> was created this fall for the purpose of explaining and justifying  
> many of those crimes--see, for example, this article in Izvestiya on  
> kollektivizatsiya
>
> http://www.izvestia.ru/forum/?id_publ=3122651
>
> (don't miss the 1027 comments from readers, mostly angry ones)
>
> and this announcement of the creation of Istoricheskaya pamyat':
>
> http://www.inosmi.ru/text/translation/244991.html
>
> The two developments seem to be part of the same campaign.
>
> Slava Paperno
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