Perceived through the lenses of torture and incarceration of the author, Alexei Marinat’s confessional literature provides the reader with a legacy of the reconstitution of Gulag reality, the right to freedom and to remembrance. The memoirs of the diarist A. Marinat are a form of autobiographical writing that records multiple forms of collective torture to gain confession about the experience of the diarist while under the regime of terror. Author’s testimonies tend to illustrate the full extent of alienation from the point of view of a survivor who managed to record the terrible realities of communist persecution, recovering collective memory and acting as a true advocate of the individuals who suffered from this oppressive regime. The statement of the well-known historian Pierre Nora stating that memory is blind to all but the group it binds tends to support the relevance of collective memory, exploring the right of confessional literature to be considered a rich documentary source, a traumatic experience common to a generation of political prisoners and dissidents.