Warped Mourning Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied
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Erscheinungsdatum
25.05.2023
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Stanford University PressSeitenzahl
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Englisch
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9780804785532
"[A] superb study of Russian cultural memory makes all too clear, ghosts of the unburied dead affect literature, art, public life and mental health too." -
The Economist
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.
"Every page contains fresh, striking insights, not only in the intrinsic value of art itself, but more significantly in the process of mourning.... This brilliant book will be indispensable for scholars of mourning theories." -
Choice
"There is undoubtedly much that is new and exciting in this study of the impact of state violence on the form and content of art and scholarship in post-Stalin Russia." -
Russian Review
"A fascinating and haunting study of how successive Kremlin leaders and the intelligentsia have explained the Gulag and Stalin's crimes" -
Strategic Europe
The Economist
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.
"Every page contains fresh, striking insights, not only in the intrinsic value of art itself, but more significantly in the process of mourning.... This brilliant book will be indispensable for scholars of mourning theories." -
Choice
"There is undoubtedly much that is new and exciting in this study of the impact of state violence on the form and content of art and scholarship in post-Stalin Russia." -
Russian Review
"A fascinating and haunting study of how successive Kremlin leaders and the intelligentsia have explained the Gulag and Stalin's crimes" -
Strategic Europe
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