Pushkin House's video: Historical Memory in Russia: Josephine von Zitzewitz interviews Irina Flige of Memorial

- - SUBTITLES COMING SOON - - Exclusively for Pushkin House, academic Josephine von Zitzewitz (University of Cambridge faculty of modern and mediaeval languages) interviews Irina Flige, director of the Memorial Research & Information Centre, St Petersburg. They speak about the legacy of political repression, and efforts to document it - and opposition to its documentation. The conversation touches on why Memorial focuses on the material evidence of repression, and mentions topics such as the Sandormokh burial site, the case of Yurii Dimitriev, and newer projects. Read the full transcript here: https://www.pushkinhouse.org/blog/2020/9/10/historical-memory-in-russia