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Title Rites of place : public commemoration in Russia and Eastern Europe / edited and with an introduction by Julie Buckler and Emily D. Johnson
Published Evanston, Ill : Northwestern University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (348 pages)
Contents Intro; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction / Julie Buckler and Emily D. Johnson; Part 1: 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. Peterburg/Leningrad / Emily D. Johnson; Part 2: The Art and Culture of Commemoration
The Portrait Mode: Zhukovsky, Pushkin, and the Gallery of 1812 / Luba GolburtAn 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 Beckman Chadaga; From Public, to Private, to Public Again: International Women's Day in Post-Soviet Russia / Choi Chatterjee; Part 3: 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. DabrowskiMoscow's First World War Memorial and Ninety Years of Contested Memory / Karen Petrone; Part 4: 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; Contributors
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject National characteristics.
Public spaces -- Social aspects -- Former Soviet republics
Public architecture -- Social aspects -- Former Soviet republics
Political customs and rites -- Former Soviet republics
Collective memory -- Former Soviet republics
HISTORY / General
Collective memory
National characteristics
Political customs and rites
Public spaces -- Social aspects
Regions & Countries - Europe.
History & Archaeology.
Russia & Former Soviet Republics.
Soviet Union -- Former Soviet republics
Form Electronic book
Author Johnson, Emily D., 1966-
Buckler, Julie A
ISBN 0810166593
9780810166592