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Book SynopsisRevolutionary Aftereffects looks at the legacies of the 1917 Revolution in Russia today through a variety of disciplinary lenses.
Trade Review"The disciplinary breadth of Revolutionary Aftereffects provides a compelling set of entryways into the interesting question of what might constitute a useable Bolshevik and Soviet past that could renovate national memory in contemporary Russia." -- David Fisher, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley *
The Russian Review *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reverberations from the Past Megan Swift Part I: Material and Mnemonic Aftereffects 1. The Silent Jubilee, the Blank Space: Spatial and Commemorative Practice around the 1917 Centenary Megan Swift 2. Gentrification, Post-Tourism, and Trauma: Uses of the 1917 Revolution’s Memory Places in 2017 Russia Maria Silina 3. Revolutionary Architecture in Putin’s Russia: The Avant-Garde as a Disputed Heritage Julie Deschepper Part II: Social and Environmental Aftereffects 4. The Stalled Soviet Gender Revolution: Normalized Crisis in Russia Jennifer Utrata 5. “Etnos-thinking” in 1917 and Today David G. Anderson 6. Building the National Park System after 1917: Environmental and Political Empowerment in Territorial Constructs Michael W. Tripp Part III: Artistic and Conceptual Aftereffects 7. The Hero and the Revolution in the Works of Boris Akunin and Akunin-Chkhartishvili Elena Baraban 8. Screening the Revolution: Transformations of the Revolutionary Narrative in Russian Film since the 1960s Mark Lipovetsky
