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Life and death in the production of a Factographic object

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ID4442002
AuthorsA Fisher (0000-0002-8913-4165, ISNI: 0000000122149445 FAMU, Prague, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume13
Issue2
Pages255-273
Publication date2022-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhilosophy of Photography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2040-3682 • E-ISSN: 2040-3690
PublisherIntellect (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1386/pop_00062_1
OpenAlexW4385961335
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited3

This article focuses on documents made by the Soviet military secret service detailing the arrest, interrogation, trial and execution of Sergei Tret'iakov in Moscow in 1937. The original documents were published in Russian in 1997 as part of Return my Freedom, a collection of archival records edited by Vladimir Kolyazin that details the fate of Russian and German cultural figures who fell victim to the Stalinist terror. This record of Tret'iakov's violent death has received little attention, even in Russia or in Russian studies. The book presents facsimiles of 60 separately numbered and dated sheets containing records of Tret'iakov's arrest and the search of his home. There are two written confessions; a first short admission of guilt and a second longer account of his supposed crimes that also claims parts of the first to be fictitious. These are followed by a transcript of his interrogation, a very brief account of his trial and the even briefer report of his execution. A historical gap separates these from documents of Tret'iakov's official rehabilitation in 1954 which his wife, Olga Tret'iakov was instrumental in securing. Return my Freedom also contains the record of her arrest, interrogation and release in 1937. The article presents translated extracts from the official record of Tret'iakov's interrogation and execution for the first time in English, and it explores these documents in relation to core strategies and critical commitments that shaped Tret'iakov's influential conception of Factography

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Citations per year0,33
Citation span2023 - 2023 (1)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo

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