Rites of place : public commemoration in Russia and Eastern Europe / edited and with an introduction by Julie Buckler and Emily D. Johnson.
"Ranging widely across time and geography, Rites of Place is to date the most comprehensive and diverse example of memory studies in the field of Russian and East European studies. Leading scholars consider how public rituals and the commemoration of historically significant sites facilitate a...
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Table of Contents:
- Reconstituting urban space. Transporting Jerusalem : the epiphany ritual in early St. Petersburg / Michael S. Flier ; Prague funerals : how Czech national symbols conquered and defended public space / Marek Nekula ; "A monstrous staircase" : inscribing the 1905 revolution on Odessa / Rebecca Stanton ; Jubilation deferred : the belated commemoration of the 250th anniversary of St. Petersburg/Leningrad / Emily D. Johnson
- The art and culture of commemoration. The portrait mode : Zhukovsky, Pushkin, and the gallery of 1812 / Luba Golburt ; An island of antiquity : the double life of Talashkino in Russia and beyond / Katia Dianina ; From Lenin's tomb to Avtovo Station : illusion and spectacle in Soviet subterranean space / Julia Bekman Chadaga ; From public, to private, to public again : International Women's Day in post-Soviet Russia / Choi Chatterjee
- Military and battlefield commemorations. Taking and retaking the field : Borodino as a site of collective memory / Julie Buckler ; Who to lead the Slavs? : Poles, Russians , and the 1910 anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald / Patrice M. Dabrowski ; Moscow's first world war memorial and ninety years of contested memory / Karen Petrone
- Commemorating trauma. Memory as the anchor of sovereignty : Katyn and the charge of genocide / James von Geldern ; Postcolonial estrangements : claiming a space between Stalin and Hitler / Serguei Alex. Oushakine ; Prisons into museums : fashioning a post-Communist place of memory / Cristina Vatulescu.