Warped mourning :: stories of the undead in the land of the unburied /

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 th...

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1. Verfasser: Ėtkind, Aleksandr, 1955-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2013.
Schriftenreihe:Cultural memory in the present.
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Zusammenfassung: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"": t.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xvi, 300 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780804785532
0804785538
0804773920
9780804773928
0804773939
9780804773935

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