From Socialist Realism to Orthodox Christianity: “Blockade Temples” in Saint Petersburg
Journal: Laboratorium Russian Review of Social Research
Year: 2018

&nbsp;The article, based on the analysis of architectural and memorial complexes dedicated to the Siege of Leningrad in Saint Petersburg, investigates the processes of formation and transformation of historical memory of this event in the urban space. The secular language of the artistic representation of the blockade created during the years of the USSR was instrumentalized by agents of the politics of history on the eve of perestroika and reinterpreted through the categories of Orthodox Christ