Crooked grief. The memory of the immaculate. 3rd edition. Etkind A.M.

This is a book about grief for the victims of Soviet repressions, about the cultural mechanisms of memory and sorrow. The work of grief reproduces the past in the imagination, texts and rituals; She returns the dead to life, but this is not quite life. Cultural memory after a social disaster is a complex environment in which victims, executioners and witnesses of crimes coexist. Among them live very strange creatures - vampires, zombies, ghosts.

from the “case of historians” to masterpieces of Soviet cinema, from monuments to the victims of the Gulag to the post -Soviet “magical historicism”, the book of Alexander Etkinda draws a bizarre panorama of post -catastrophic culture.