{"product_id":"georgs-avetisjans-motherland-far-beyond-the-polar-circle","title":"Georgs Avetisjans. Motherland. Far Beyond the Polar Circle","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis is a journey far beyond the polar circle that brings to light memories of Soviet deportees and contemporary stories through a photobook.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe book \"Motherland. Far Beyond the Polar Circle\" is a visual and investigative journey to understand secrets guarded in the past. Using a Soviet-made medium format camera, the Salut, Georgs narrates the story of a town built upon the bones of Soviet prisoners 163 kilometres beyond the polar circle where many deportees once lived. Considered enemies of the USSR, many were taken to the Gulag camps and left to die from cold, starvation, and poverty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGeorgs went to a town Far North in Siberia, where his mom was born in 1952 and where his grandma spent 15 years in exile. She was deported in 1941. The author went on the Trans-Siberian train from Moscow to Krasnoyarsk, where he boarded a small plane to Igarka. It was his journey through the past on the railroad tracks of exile.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe believe this book and inclusive materials, letters, and found diary entries will raise awareness of these political crimes, propaganda, and history that repeats itself in modern-day Russia, where deportations are still a political tradition of the Soviet Union. The book shows how quickly the past is forgotten.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Motherland. Far Beyond the Polar Circle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublished by:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Milda Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDesign:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Georgs Avetisjans\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e237 x 285 mm, 120 pages. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSilk-screen printed linen box and cardboard hardcover with section sewn open spine Swiss binding\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Latvian, English, Russian\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e First edition of 500\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease date: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2023\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePhotobook \/ 120 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e107 photographs \/ including archives\u003cbr\u003eRiso printed case folder \/ 4 pages\u003cbr\u003eLetter #1 \/ 8 pages\u003cbr\u003eLetter #2 \/ 4 pages;\u003cbr\u003eDiary (Memories about Siberia by Valija Kampins) \/ 32 pages\u003cbr\u003eTop-secret USSR document \/ 22 pages\u003cbr\u003eNewspaper (interviews and newspaper clippings)\u003cbr\u003e(RU\/EN) \/ 80 pages\u003cbr\u003eNewspaper (interviews and newspaper clippings)\u003cbr\u003e(LV) \/ 72 pages\u003cbr\u003eNewspaper cuts \"The Polar Communist\" \/ 42 pages\u003cbr\u003eFamily archives \/ 4 pages\u003cbr\u003eInclusive archival documents and photographs \/ 28 pages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Milda Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47233300201804,"sku":"Motherland-2023","price":87.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/1787\/4764\/files\/Motherland1.png?v=1697445121","url":"https:\/\/shop.issp.lv\/en\/products\/georgs-avetisjans-motherland-far-beyond-the-polar-circle","provider":"ISSP Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}