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1 online resource (116 p.) |
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Routledge International Focus on Death and Funeral Practices Ser |
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Routledge International Focus on Death and Funeral Practices Ser
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| Contents |
Cover Page -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents Page -- List of illustrations Page -- Preface Page -- Acknowledgments Page -- 1 The Russia: an introduction -- 1.1 Russia in historical perspective: key points -- 1.2 Contemporary Russia: an overview -- 1.3 Political system -- 1.4 Social, cultural, economic context -- 1.5 Demography and mortality -- 2 History -- 2.1 Funeral arrangements and cemeteries in the Russian Empire (1721-1917) -- 2.2 Funeral changes in early USSR (1917-1945) -- 2.3 Cremation in early USSR (1917-1945) |
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2.4 National necropolises in the USSR -- 2.5 Funerals in the post-war USSR (1945-1960) -- 2.6 Funerals in the late Soviet times (1960-1991) -- 3 Funeral industry law and regulation framework -- 3.1 Federal and municipal authorities -- 3.2 The private sector -- 3.3 Death registration -- 3.4 Funeral federal law -- 3.5 Regional legislation -- 3.6 General requirements for funeral infrastructure -- 3.7 Funeral paperwork -- 3.8 Legal contradictions -- 4 Funeral directing industry -- 4.1 Changes in the funeral industry in contemporary Russia 1991-2020 -- 4.2 Professional associations |
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4.3 Exhibitions and professional events -- 4.4 Education -- 4.5 Manufacturers: gravestones and monuments -- 4.6 Manufacturers: coffin producers and accessories -- 4.7 Private funeral directors -- 4.8 Criminality -- 4.9 Local governments and municipalities funeral services -- 4.10 Cemetery workers -- 4.11 Innovation and digitalization in Russian funeral industry -- 4.12 Consumer assessment of the quality of services in the funeral market -- 5 Cemeteries -- 5.1 Burial sites types -- 5.2 Number of burial sites -- 5.3 Ownership and management -- 5.4 The grave -- 5.5 Layout -- 6 Crematoriums |
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6.1 Ownership and management -- 6.2 Crematorium layout -- 6.3 Crematorium service -- 6.4 Disposal of ashes -- 7 Transportation, mortuaries, and farewell halls -- 7.1 Transporting coffins and bodies -- 7.2 Morgues and places to store dead bodies -- 7.3 Farewell halls -- 8 Religious belief and funerary practices -- 8.1 Russian Orthodox Church -- 8.2 Christian farewell -- 8.3 Muslim funerals -- 8.4 Jewish funerals -- 8.5 Pagan funerals -- 9 Typical funeral -- 9.1 Immediately following the death -- 9.2 Making funeral arrangements -- 9.3 Care of the deceased |
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9.4 Between the day of death and the funeral -- 9.5 The day of the funeral -- 9.6 Cultural differences -- 10 Funeral costs -- 10.1 The value of the funeral industry -- 10.2 Average funeral costs -- 10.3 Funeral director fixed costs -- 10.4 Funeral director variable costs -- 10.5 Cemetery costs -- 10.6 Municipal funeral services -- 10.7 Funeral planning and insurance -- 11 Commemoration and remembrance in the public sphere -- 11.1 Gravestones -- 11.2 Memory days -- 11.3 Spontaneous shrines -- 11.4 Unknown burial places, reburials, and war memorial days |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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11.5 Public mourning: terrorism and mass disasters |
| Subject |
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Russia -- History
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Death care industry -- Russia
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Mourning etiquette -- Russia
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Death care industry
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Funeral rites and ceremonies
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Mourning etiquette
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Russia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000527070 |
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1000527077 |
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