Revolutionary Aftereffects : : Material, Social, and Cultural Legacies of 1917 in Russia Today / / ed. by Megan Swift.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, David G.,; Baraban, Elena V.,; Deschepper, Julie,; Lipovetsky, Mark,; Silina, Maria,; Swift, Megan,; Tripp, Michael W.,; Utrata, Jennifer,
• HerausgeberIn: Swift, Megan,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (260 p.) :; 29 b&w illustrations, 3 b&w tables

Thirty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, the 1917 Revolution still looms large. Not only because Russians remain divided over whether it arrived forcibly or inevitably, and whether it was a colossally tragic or colossally generative event, but also because the social, cultural, scientific, and even moral residues of the revolution remain everywhere in Putin’s Russia. Revolutionary Aftereffects looks at the ways in which 1917 has and continues to be commemorated in Russia. Although post-Soviet Russia has emphasized its complete break with the past, this study of the memorialization and legacy of 1917 explores a fundamental continuity underlying an apparent discourse of discontinuity in post-socialist Russia. Contributors provide insight into the continuing reverberations of the revolution from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, not just history and literary studies but also heritage studies, anthropology, geography, and sociology. Collectively, they demonstrate the changing nature of the revolution’s memorialization in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia and the ambivalence and contradictions within those narratives.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Reverberations from the Past -- PART I Material and Mnemonic Aftereffects -- 1 The Silent Jubilee, the Blank Space: Spatial and Commemorative Practice around the 1917 Centenary -- 2 Gentrification, Post-Tourism, and Trauma: Uses of the 1917 Revolution’s Memory Places in 2017 Russia -- 3 Revolutionary Architecture in Russia Today: The Avant-Garde as a Disputed Heritage -- PART II Social and Environmental Aftereffects -- 4 The Stalled Soviet Gender Revolution: Normalized Crisis in Contemporary Russia -- 5 “Etnos-Thinking” in 1917 and Today -- 6 Building the National Park System after 1917: Environmental and Political Empowerment in Territorial Constructs -- PART III Artistic and Conceptual Aftereffects -- 7 The Hero and the Revolution in the Works of Boris Akunin and Akunin-Chkhartishvili -- 8 Screening the Revolution: Transformations of the Revolutionary Narrative in Russian Film since the 1960s -- Contributors -- Index