Virtual Gulag museum

This rubric is attached to illustrations of the totalitarian period that are not directly linked to political repression, i.e. objects, documents, photographs and artifacts referring to specific Soviet rituals and procedures that were meant to show the ceremonal side of social and political life: processions, public demonstrations, solemn assemblies, sports parades, documents on fundraising for the International Organisation for Supporting the Fighters of the Revolution (MOPR) or the Society for Assisting Defence and the Aircraft and Chemical Industries (OSOAVIAKhIM), formal meetings of the young pioneers etc. As a rule, objects of this kind are found in museum exhibitions designed to show "the period as such" or, as a counterpoint, in exhibitions on the terror and the Gulag. Materials relating to private life, the family, work or culture and not displaying specific features of totalitarianism do not belong to this rubric.

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Participants in a Komsomol Conference in Pokrovsk (Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic for Germans in the Volga Region). Fifth on the left in the third row is P.I. Schőnfeld. Photo 1924

Summary article

A group photograph of participants in a Komsomol Conference in Marksshtadt (Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic for Germans in the Volga Region), taken in spring 1924. In the 2nd row are: 1) E.I. Schőnfeld (second on the left) 2) V.I. Schőnfeld, Second Secretary of the Canton Committee of the Komsomol...

Museums

Museum

Anzhero-Sudzhensk Municipal Local History Museum

Subject index /Everyday Life in the Soviet Union