Join us for an online screening of the award-winning documentary, as well as a Zoom discussion between the director and author Paul Gregory
While Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago largely tells of the men caught in Stalin’s camps and settlements for 'crimes against the state', Marianna Yarovskaya's acclaimed 2018 film features six women, all in their eighties and nineties. They tell their stories while going about their daily lives in the remote villages of the Urals, suburbs of Moscow and in the breakaway Republic of Abkhazia.
We welcomed Marianna to Pushkin House in 2019, and are delighted to be hosting her again, via Zoom from the US, in conversation with Paul Gregory, author of the original book Women of the Gulag. Join us for a Zoom discussion at 6pm BST on Friday 30th April, then watch the film from the comfort of your own home until Sunday 2nd May.
“The stories of the victims of the Gulag, told by people who had little or no understanding of why this was happening to them, make an excellent antidote to creeping historical amnesia.” - Anne Applebaum, Washington Post
Marianna Yarovskaya is an award-winning Russian-American documentary filmmaker who is the director and producer of the 2018 Academy Award short-listed documentary film Women of the Gulag. Her first film, Undesirables won a Student Academy Award in 2001. Since then, she has worked for dozens of programs for Discovery Channel, National Geographic, History Channel, Greenpeace, Animal Planet as producer, executive producer, and senior editor. She has credits on over 80 documentary films and TV programs, including research credits on two Academy Award-winning and one Academy nominated feature film. Producers Guild of America (PGA) member.
Paul Gregory is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. Author of Women of the Gulag (Hoover), Terror by Quota (Yale), and editor of the 8-volume History of Stalin’s Gulag (Rosspen), he has worked in the Hoover archives for over 15 years. His archival research has formed the basis for more than eight books. Gregory is also a professor emeritus from the University of Houston.