Расследование КАРАГОДИНА (KARAGODIN.ORG) это «прошлое как действие»

"Прошлое как действие" – именно так историк Иван КУРИЛЛА* рассматривает в своей книге "Битва за прошлое: как политика переписывает историю" проект Дениса КАРАГОДИНА "Расследование КАРАГОДИНА".

Расследованию отводится роль глубокого системообразующего действия, с высоковероятными далеко идущими институциональными последствиями для всего российского общества.

Книга вышла в России в 2022 году, но в 2025 году, была дополнена и переиздана отдельным англоязычным изданием (для глобальной аудитории).

Публикуем оригинальную русскую и дополненную английскую версии текста, с любезного разрешения автора.

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The KARAGODIN Investigation (KARAGODIN.ORG) as ‘The Past as Action’

Karagodin Investigation (KARAGODOIN.ORG)

The KARAGODIN Investigation (KARAGODIN.ORG) is examined by historian Ivan Kurilla* as an example of ‘the past as action’ in his book The Battle for the Past: How Politics Rewrites History.

This text is a chapter from Ivan Kurilla’s book in which he discusses the Karagodin Investigation project. In the book, the project and its author, Denis Karagodin, are placed in the section ‘The Past as Action’. Kurilla shows that Denis Karagodin’s project has a deep system-forming, institutional character, with far-reaching institutional implications for Russian society.

The full text is published with the author’s permission.

The Battle for the PastHow Politics Rewrites History

The Battle for the Past
How Politics Rewrites History by Ivan Kurilla

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Inherited Silence: Russian Family History — the KARAGODIN Investigation mentioned in an article by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, New York University

An article by Anna Vichkitova was published on the website of the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia (New York University), mentioning the KARAGODIN Investigation:

Inherited Silence: Russian Family History

What defines post-Soviet family history is not what has been transmitted, like the inherited pain of Holocaust survivors’ descendants, but what has been missed.

Denis Karagodin, a resident of Tomsk, spent nearly a decade investigating the execution of his great-grandfather by the Soviet secret police. He created an open-access website to document the story, identify those complicit in the crime, and recover the case from archival records. Karagodin is not a professional historian; his work is driven by a personal search for justice and truth. His project is part of a broader trend in post-Soviet Russia aimed at restoring family narratives that were erased. <…>

Source: Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia
Publication date: November 26, 2025
URL: https://jordanrussiacenter.org/blog/inherited-silence-russian-family-history