TY - BOOK
T1 - Warped mourning: stories of the undead in the land of the unburied
T2 - Cultural memory in the present
AU - Etkind, Alexander
N1 - 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
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - 20th century
KW - Collective memory and literature
KW - Grief in literature
KW - History and criticism
KW - Russia (Federation)
KW - Russian literature
KW - Socialism and literature
KW - Soviet Union
KW - Victims of state-sponsored terrorism
UR - https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/warped-mourning
M3 - Book
SN - 978-0-8047-7392-8 0-8047-7392-0 978-0-8047-7393-5 0-8047-7393-9
T3 - Cultural Memory in The Present
BT - Warped mourning: stories of the undead in the land of the unburied
PB - Stanford University Press
CY - Stanford, Cal
ER -
