Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied (Cultural Memory in the Present)
"As Alexander Etkind's superb study of Russian cultural memory makes all too clear, ghosts of the unburied dead affect literature, art, public life and mental health too. Mr Etkind ranges expertly through cultural theory, film, literary criticism, linguistics, art and philosophy. Excursions into high theory are punctuated with searing personal testimonies" -The Economist"A fascinating and haunting study of how successive Kremlin leaders and the intelligentsia have explained the Gulag and Stalin's crimes" -Strategic Europe