History: 20c Russia

Jug, S. 2020

‘Mourning deaths and constructing afterlives in the Red Army at war’, in C. Cann (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Death and the Afterlife, London: Routledge, 136-152.

Merridale, C. 2000

Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia, London: Granta.

Merridale, C. 2003

‘Revolution among the dead: cemeteries in twentieth-century Russia’, Mortality, 8:3, 176-188.

Merridale, C. 1996

‘Death and memory in Modern Russia’, History Workshop Journal, 42, 1-19.

Mokhov, S. & Sokolova, S. 2020

‘Broken infrastructure and soviet modernity: the funeral market in Russia’, Mortality, 25:2, 232-248.

Rodin, N. 2020

‘Repatriating the remains of Russian combatants during the Great War’ in R. Fathi & E. Robertson (eds) Proximity and Distance: Space, Time and World War I, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.

Sokolova, A. 2019

‘Soviet funeral services: from moral economy to social welfare and back’, Journal of Revolutionary Russia, 32:2, 251-271.

Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract