| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 300 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cultural memory in the present
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Cultural memory in the present.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Mimetic and subversive -- Mourning and warning -- The parable of misrecognition -- Writing history after jail -- On tortured life and world culture -- The debt to the dead -- The cosmopolitan way -- The tale of two turns -- The hard and the soft -- Post-Soviet hauntology -- Magical historicism. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Russian literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Grief in literature.
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Grief in literature. |
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Socialism and literature -- Soviet Union.
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Socialism and literature. |
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Soviet Union. |
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Collective memory and literature -- Soviet Union.
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Collective memory and literature. |
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Collective memory and literature -- Russia (Federation)
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Russia (Federation) |
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Victims of state-sponsored terrorism -- Soviet Union.
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Victims of state-sponsored terrorism. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ėtkind, Aleksandr, 1955- Warped mourning. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2013 (DLC) 2012028868 |
| ISBN |
9780804785532 (electronic book) |
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0804785538 (electronic book) |
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0804773920 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
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9780804773928 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
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0804773939 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780804773935 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780804773928 (cloth alkaline paper) |
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9780804773935 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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