Vozvraščenie Archives

Period (1927-) 1984-1993
Total size  23 microfilms

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History

Founded in 1989 by former prisoners of the GULAG, the Moscow historical literary society Vozvraščenie (The Return) collects memoirs, poems and other literary witnesses of life in the GULAG archipelago; it also organizes meetings of former political prisoners, including survivors of the Nazi concentration camps, and holds conferences on related themes; since Vozvraščenie started working as a publishing house in 1992, it has published over 50 books, part of which are in the form of a series entitled `Poety Uzniki GULAGa' (`Poets Prisoners of the GULAG'); it also publishes Volja, a journal containing articles on the camps and the totalitarian system primarily written by former prisoners; Vozvraščenie aims at contributing to the building of a civil society in the countries of the former Soviet Union.

Content

Part of the papers collected by Vozvraščenie consisting of unpublished manuscripts (mostly memoirs), diaries, letters, literary works and photographs of former victims of the GULAG, who were imprisoned in various regions of the former Soviet Union; copies of investigative files concerning prisoners; the papers of, among others, the pre-revolutionary anarchist Andrej Nikiforovič Andreev and the socialist revolutionary Berta Aleksandrovna Babina, who was later incarcerated in the harsh labor camps of Kolyma; programs, resolutions, letters, articles and other documents relating to the Vozvraščenie conferences on resistance in the GULAG; documents on Vozvraščenie.

NB. Originals at Vozvraščenie in Moscow.

Location of originals

Originals at Vozvraščenie in Moscow

Finding aid

List (incomplete) in Russian on paper in IISH reading room