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Author Merridale, Catherine, 1959-

Title Night of stone : death and memory in twentieth century Russia / Catherine Merridale.

Imprint New York : Viking, 2001.

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 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  393.0947 M55ln 2001    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st American ed.
Description 402 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (381-392) and index.
Contents Against the Darkness: An Introduction -- Another Light -- A Culture of Death -- The Palace of Freedom -- Transforming Fire -- Common and Uncommon Graves -- The Great Silence -- Nights of Stone -- Russia at War -- The Pantheon -- Death in the Age of "Developed Socialism" -- A Tide of Bones -- Listening for the Dead.
Summary "During the twentieth century, Russia, Ukraine, and other territories of the former Soviet Union experienced more bloodshed and violent death than anywhere else on earth: fifty million dead, in an epic of destruction that encompassed war, revolution, famine, epidemic, and political purges. How did Russians cope with loss on such a scale and how does such a society mourn? In Night of Stone, Catherine Merridale asks Russians the most difficult questions about how their country's volatile past has affected their everyday lives, their aspirations, dreams, and nightmares. The result is a highly original and revealing history of modern Russia."
"Above all, this is a history of silence. Untold millions were forbidden to mourn their loved ones, or knew the danger of expressing public sorrow for enemies of the people or vanished victims of the purges."--Jacket.
Subject Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Russia (Federation) -- History -- 20th century.
Death -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation) -- History -- 20th century.
Bereavement -- Russia (Federation) -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 20th century.
Russia (Federation) -- Religious life and customs -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN 0670894745 (hc : alk. paper)
9780670894741 (hc : alk. paper)

 
    
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