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Popa, G. 2009

‘“Graves without crosses”: the dead and the remembrance of the Second World War in post-Soviet Moldova’, in M. Rotar & M. Sozzi (eds) Proceedings of the Dying and Death in the 18th-21st Centuries Europe International Conference, Cluj-Napoca: Accent, 145-158.

Rotar, M. 2017

‘Civil funerals in Romania until the outbreak of the Second World War’, Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire / Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis, 95:4, 938-61.

Rotar, M. 2017

‘Civil funerals in Romania until the outbreak of the Second World War’, Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire / Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis, 95:4, 938-61.

Rotar, M. 2021

‘On civil funerals in contemporary Romania’, Mortality, 26:2, 131-143.

Sadigov, T. 2020

‘Burying instability: post-Soviet governments’ regulation of funerals’, Problems of Post-Communism, 68:1, 74-87.

Schulz, F. 2008

‘Disposing of the dead in East Germany, 1945-1990’, in A. Confino, P. Betts & D. Schumann (eds) Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 113-128.

Schulz, F. 2013

Death in East Germany, 1945-1990, New York NY: Berghahn Books.

Sokolova, A. 2019

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

Taylor, B. 2004

Rise and fall of the Soviet pantheon’ in R. Wrigley & M. Craske (eds) Pantheons: Transformations of a Monumental Idea, Aldershot: Ashgate, 221-43.

Teather, E. 2001

‘The case of the disorderly graves: contemporary deathscapes in Guangzhou’, Journal of Social and Cultural Geography, 2, 185-202.

Tóth, H. 2013

‘Shades of grey: sepulchral culture in East Germany between pluralisation and standardization’ in E. Venbrux, T. Quartier, C. Venhost & B. Mathijssen (eds) Changing European Deathways, Wien: Lit Verlag, 141-164.

Whyte, M. 1988

‘Death in the People’s Republic of China’, in J. Watson & E. Rawski (eds) Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China, London: University of California Press, 289-316.

Zhang, E. 2013

‘Grieving at Chongqing’s Red Guard graveyard: in the name of life itself’, China Journal, 70, 24-47.

Events

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