Memorials to the Soviet victims are inadequate, and their families have received no significant compensation. Alexander Etkind shows how post-Soviet Russia has turned the painful process of mastering the past into an important part of its political present.. More than twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia remains "the land of the unburied": the e
| Title | : | Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied (Cultural Memory in the Present) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.93 (877 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0804773939 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 328Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-2-4 |
| Language | : | English |
Memorials to the Soviet victims are inadequate, and their families have received no significant compensation. Alexander Etkind shows how post-Soviet Russia has turned the painful process of mastering the past into an important part of its political present.. 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. 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. This book's premise is that late Soviet and post-Soviet culture, haunted by its past, has produced a unique set of mem
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