In 2022, the Nobel Committee awarded the Peace Prize to the organization Memorial. That same day, a Moscow city court stripped the already-dissolved organization of its premises. For decades, Memorial had worked on the subject of political repression—a phenomenon that has only continued to grow. This book by Sergey Bondarenko tells the story of political activists, dissidents, and nonconformists; of a monument that was never built; and of the ongoing struggle over a past that has yet to be laid to rest.