Activity Type:
Film
Presenter:
Marianna Yarovskaya, Director
Date:
Thursday, November 14, 2019 - 17:30
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Location:
Auditorium 125, Frick Fine Arts
Contact Person:
Sera Passerini
Contact Phone:
4126487407
Contact Email:
smp125@pitt.edu
Women of the Gulag tells the compelling and tragic stories of six women as last survivors of the Gulag. Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago largely tells of the men caught in Stalin's camps and special settlements for "crimes against the state." Women of the Gulag, features six women in their eighties and nineties as they tell their stories while going about their daily lives in remote Urals villages, in break-away Sukhumi, or in Moscow suburbs. Their only hesitancy to speak out relates to sexual violence, about which they would only hint. Sadly, three died shortly after their interviews.
UCIS Unit:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Non-University Sponsors:
Carnegie Mellon Department of History
Carnegie Mellon Department of Modern Languages
World Regions:
Russia/Eastern Europe
Is Event Already in University Calendar?:
No
Pitt Undergrads:
15
Pitt Grad Students:
5