Irina Flige has been the director of the Research and Information Center “Memorial” St. Petersburg since 2002. A social anthropologist specializing in the material memory of Soviet state terror and the Gulag, she has been collecting and preserving personal archives for many years. She is also a widely published expert on Gulag burial sites. Visit worldlit.org to read Emily Johnson’s interview with Flige.
When Irina Flige visited the University of Oklahoma to receive the 2022 Clyde Snow Social Justice Award earlier this year, she delivered the following public lecture, based on her work with the Russia…