When I first decided to write about Vlast\u27 Solovetskaia (Solovki Power), Marina Goldovskaia\u27s 1988 documentary about the 1920\u27s 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