Installing a Biography: The Intertwined Pathway of a Last Address Memorial Plaque in Post-Soviet Russia
Abstract
In this paper, I will focus on the commemorational plate on behalf of the Last Address initiative. Through my ethnographic work in Saint Petersburg, I show how a German commemorational idea of the Nazi past migrated to post-Soviet Russia. I will analyze the transition of the plate in space and time, which expose the Russian characteristics of the initiative. By tracing the plate in the public sphere, I aim to show how both the victim's biography and the plate's biography are embedded in it. Thus, I will show the bottom-up discourses that these biographies provoke in post-Soviet Russia regarding its violent past.
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