Chapter 5 On the Role of the Individual in Materializing, Mediating, and Commemorating Memories of the Stalinist Repressions

This study combines economic, biographical, performative, and narrative approaches to commemoration to understand how the memory of the Stalinist repressions gains mnemonic capital through individualized practice. It is argued that an individual engaged in the field of commemoration can be seen as a...

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Main Author: Kõresaar, Ene (auth)
Other Authors: Anepaio, Terje (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis 2023
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