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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 sense of community, shape cultural identity, and promote political ideologies. The aims of this volume take on unique importance in the context of the tumultuous events that have marked Eastern European history—especially the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, World War II, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. With essays on topics such as the founding of St. Petersburg, the battle of Borodino, the Katyn massacre, and the Lenin cult, this volume offers a rich discussion of the uses and abuses of memory in cultures where national identity has repeatedly undergone dramatic shifts and remains riven by internal contradictions.

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  1. Cover
  2. p. 1
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. i-iv
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. List of Illustrations
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. ix-xii
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-12
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  1. Part 1: Reconstituting Urban Space
  1. Transporting Jerusalem: The Epiphany Ritual in Early St. Petersburg
  2. pp. 15-34
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  1. Prague Funerals: How Czech National Symbols Conquered and Defended Public Space
  2. pp. 35-58
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  1. "A Monstrous Staircase" : Inscribing the 1905 Revolution on Odessa
  2. pp. 59-80
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  1. Jubilation Deferred: The Belated Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of St. Peterburg/Leningrad
  2. pp. 81-102
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  1. Part 2: The Art and Culture of Commemoration
  1. The Portrait Mode: Zhukovsky, Pushkin, and the Gallery of 1812
  2. pp. 105-132
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  1. An Island of Antiquity: The Double Life of Talashkino in Russia and Beyond
  2. pp. 133-156
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  1. From Lenin's Tomb to Avtovo Station: Illusion and Spectacle in Soviet Subterranean Space
  2. pp. 157-182
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  1. From Public, to Private, to Public Again: International Women's Day in Post-Soviet Russia
  2. pp. 183-200
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  1. Part 3: Military and Battlefield Commemorations
  1. Taking and Retaking the Field: Borodino as a Site of Collective Memory
  2. pp. 203-224
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  1. Who to Lead the Slavs? : Poles, Russians, and the 1910 Anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald
  2. pp. 225-240
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  1. Moscow's First World War Memorial and Ninety Years of Contested Memory
  2. pp. 241-260
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  1. Part 4: Commemorating Trauma
  1. Memory as the Anchor of Sovereignty: Katyn and the Charge of Genocide
  2. pp. 263-284
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  1. Postcolonial Estrangements: Claiming a Space Between Stalin and Hitler
  2. pp. 285-314
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  1. Prisons into Museums: Fashioning a Post-Communist Place of Memory
  2. pp. 315-336
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 337-338
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