Reinventing Soviet visual memory :a case study of Marina Goldovskaia's documentary Solovki power

Abstract

When I first decided to write about Vlast' Solovetskaia (Solovki Power), Marina Goldovskaia's 1988 documentary about the 1920's prison camp on Solovki Island in the far north of Russia, I though this project would be about Stalinist culture. However, I realized that the larger issue surrounding this film was not what it said about the camp, but rather the tension between the present and the representation of the past