Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied - Couverture souple

Etkind, Alexander

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0804773939 ISBN 13 : 9780804773935

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2013

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alexander Etkind is Professor of Russian Literature and Cultural History at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a Fellow at King's College. His most recent book is Internal Colonization: Russia's Imperial Experience (2011).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804773939
• ISBN 13: 9780804773935
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328
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