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Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Bulletin of Cultural Life in the U.S.S.R.
Author: Warped Mourning
Author: Alexander EtkindPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804785538
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
“[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
USSR Information Bulletin
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself
Author: Emily D. JohnsonPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271030372
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In the bookshops of present-day St. Petersburg, guidebooks abound. Both modern descriptions of Russia’s old imperial capital and lavish new editions of pre-Revolutionary texts sell well, primarily attracting an audience of local residents. Why do Russians read one- and two-hundred-year-old guidebooks to a city they already know well? In How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself, Emily Johnson traces the Russian fascination with local guides to the idea of kraevedenie. Kraevedenie (local studies) is a disciplinary tradition that in Russia dates back to the early twentieth century. Practitioners of kraevedenie investigate local areas, study the ways human society and the environment affect each other, and decipher the semiotics of space. They deconstruct urban myths, analyze the conventions governing the depiction of specific regions and towns in works of art and literature, and dissect both outsider and insider perceptions of local population groups. Practitioners of kraevedenie helped develop and popularize the Russian guidebook as a literary form. Johnson traces the history of kraevedenie, showing how St. Petersburg–based scholars and institutions have played a central role in the evolution of the discipline. Distinguished from obvious Western equivalents such as cultural geography and the German Heimatkunde by both its dramatic history and unique social significance, kraevedenie has, for close to a hundred years, served as a key forum for expressing concepts of regional and national identity within Russian culture. How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself is published in collaboration with the Harriman Institute at Columbia University as part of its Studies of the Harriman Institute series.
The Department of State Bulletin
Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Information Bulletin
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Bulletin of Cultural Life in the U.S.S.R.
Author: Vsesoi︠u︡znoe obshchestvo kulʹturnoĭ svi︠a︡zi s zagranit︠s︡eĭ (Soviet Union)Publisher:
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Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Cultural Perspectives, Geopolitics, & Energy Security of Eurasia
Author: Mahir IbrahimovPublisher:
ISBN: 9781940804316
Category : Eurasia
Languages : en
Pages :
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