WARPED MOURNING by Alexander Etkind ( 9780804773935 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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WARPED MOURNING
STORIES OF THE UNDEAD IN THE LAND OF THE UNBURIED

By:

Alexander Etkind

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Paperback

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0804773939

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9780804773935

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Publisher:

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

6 March, 2013

Series:

Cultural Memory in the Present

Pages:

325

Description:

Haunted by its unburied past, late Soviet and post-Soviet culture has produced unique mourning and memorial practices ? this book details these practices and provides new interpretations of the cultural artifacts produced in Russia from the 1930s through the 2010s.

Synopsis:

After Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union dismantled the enormous system of terror and torture that he had created. But there has never been any Russian ban on former party functionaries, nor any external authority to dispense justice. Memorials to the Soviet victims are inadequate, and their families have received no significant compensation. This book's premise is that late Soviet and post-Soviet culture, haunted by its past, has produced a unique set of memorial practices. More than twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia remains "the land of the unburied": the events of the mid-twentieth century are still very much alive, and still contentious. Alexander Etkind shows how post-Soviet Russia has turned the painful process of mastering the past into an important part of its political present.

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