Archivi e potere : la documentazione di Memorial, Premio Nobel per la pace 2022

Since its establishment in 1987 ‘Memorial Russia' committed itself to retrieve the experience of political repression during the Stalinist era as well as to defend human rights in post-Soviet Russia. It was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace on October 8, 2022. During its thirty-year work the Association collected a huge amount of historical documents now preserved in a library, a Museum and a specialized archive. This article provides a description of their contents and pledges the scholarly community to prevent their dispersion and protect their public use. [Publisher's text]