Death and Funeral Meats, Moscow Style (An Investigation into the Soviet Way of Death)

Carlson, Maria

Publication

Death and Funeral Meats, Moscow Style (An Investigation into the Soviet Way of Death)

Carlson, Maria

Abstract

Except for the pomp and ceremony of official state funerals, death was not a prominent feature of public or official Soviet reality. The death of general secretaries and marshals and high-ranking Party members was important because it signaled change in the relationships of power. The death of leading writers, artists, or actors often attracted many mourners to their funerals, but the event was never officially advertised or televised. Otherwise, there was little visible evidence to indicate that death and funerals were a fact of Soviet life. This ethnographic article investigates the Soviet way of death in Moscow in the mid-1980s, shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Date

2008-02-29T20:28:56Z

Collections

Slavic Cultural Studies
Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Scholarly Publications

Show all metadata

Files

DeathCarlson07.pdf

Adobe PDF, 169.42 KB

Keywords

Death, Soviet Union, Funeral customs, Funerary rituals, Cemeteries

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/1808/1831

Death and Funeral Meats, Moscow Style (An Investigation into the Soviet Way of Death)

Carlson, Maria

Citations

Abstract

Description

Date

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

Collections

Files

Research Projects

Organizational Units

Journal Issue

Keywords

Citation

URI

DOI

Embedded videos