Haunted by its unburied past, late Soviet and post-Soviet culture has produced unique mourning and memorial practices - this book details these practices and provides new interpretations of the cultural artifacts produced in Russia from the 1930s through the 2010s.
Chapter 1. Mimetic and Subversive
Chapter 2. Mourning and Warning
Chapter 3. The Parable of Misrecognition
Chapter 4. Writing History after Jail
Chapter 5. On Tortured Life and World Culture
Chapter 6. The Debt to the Dead
Chapter 7. The Cosmopolitan Way
Chapter 8. The Tale of Two Turns
Chapter 9. The Hard and the Soft
Chapter 10. Post-Soviet Hauntology
Chapter 11. Magical Historicism