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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Merridale, Catherine, 1959- Night of stone. New York : Viking, 2001 (OCoLC)891745580 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Catherine Merridale |
ISBN: | 9780670894741 0670894745 |
OCLC Number: | 44573540 |
Description: | 402 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Against the Darkness: An Introduction -- Another Light -- A Culture of Death -- The Palace of Freedom -- Transforming Fire -- Common and Uncommon Graves -- The Great Silence -- Nights of Stone -- Russia at War -- The Pantheon -- Death in the Age of "Developed Socialism" -- A Tide of Bones -- Listening for the Dead. |
Responsibility: | Catherine Merridale. |
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Russia and Death, history and current
The author uses the metaphors of “night” and “darkness” to represent death, hence the title. The...
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The author uses the metaphors of “night” and “darkness” to represent death, hence the title. The book includes history, with a focus on times of destruction, famines and war. In each chapter the author writes about how the presence of death influenced the people of the land, making certain groups stoic while making others stronger. With these mass deaths, it was difficult to have a funeral/burial for a single person. Starvation among diseases took thousands of lives forcing people to ignore the deaths of others. Details of Lenin and Stalin’s corpses and the reaction it had on the people are also provided.
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