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Moartea, supravietuirea si uitarea in Rusia
Death, Survival and Oblivion in Russia

Author(s): Rodica Culcer
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Institutul Cultural Român
Keywords: political violence; hunger as cause of mortality; Bolshevism; victims of Bolshevism; collectivization; Stalinist purification; Kolyma; the KGB archives; Gorbachev; Perestroika

Summary/Abstract: Staring from Catherine Merridale’s volume ‘Nights of Stone – Death and Memory in Russia, the author comments on the political violence in Russia, that has marred its history along the past century. The Russians’ relation to death, the radical students’ movements, the role played by the Orthodox church, the position of the main publications as regards the situation of the ordinary people, the Stalinist terror are topics of the interviews taken by Merridale and representing the essence of her book.

  • Issue Year: 2003
  • Issue No: 47
  • Page Count: 1
  • Language: Romanian