More than Alive

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• List of Figures
• Introduction
• Why the dead?
• Memoria remembrance of the dead
• Remembrance of the dead – from heroes to forensic evidence
• Fama remembrance of the dead
• Monuments
• Anniversaries
• Historia remembrance of the dead
• Book structure
• Methodology
• Part I: Grassroot Orthodoxization
• From Russian to Post-Soviet Russian Living with the Dead
• A duty to the dead and changes in memory politics
• Reconciliation with the living
• Reconciliation with the dead
• Moscow Patriarchate reconciles with the dead
• Nevsky Pyatachok: Orthodoxizing Knot Memory
• The left bank of the river and Soviet official remembrance of the dead
• The right bank of the river and grassroot remembrance
• Ivan Aleksander: a local memory guardian of dead soldiers
• Post-Soviet patchwork memory
• Contemporary economics on bones
• Conclusions
• St. Petersburg: Orthodoxizing Siege of Leningrad
• Victory Park’s Blockade Temple: from recreational facility to a site of memory
• Conclusions
• Butovo: Orthodoxizing Family Memory
• Searching for the dead bodies
• The power of ties between the living and the dead
• 1990s – Butovo as a site of family mourning rituals
• Memory conflict between Orthodoxy and secular
• 2000s – transformation into the Sanctuary of the New Russian Martyrs
• 2017 – the Garden of Memory of 20,762 dead
• Conclusions
• Part II: Top-Down Orthodoxization
• Post-Soviet ROC of the Moscow Patriarchate Living with the Dead
• Religious Memoria and ROC Hierarchy of the Dead
• Hierarchy of the dead of repressions
• Hierarchy of the dead in the war
• Religious Fama: Orthodoxizing Secular Anniversaries
• January 25 – post-Soviet Orthodox Memory Day of Soviet victims
• October 30 – reading the names of victims of political repressions
• June 22 – candles in memory of the war dead
• May 9 – walking in the Immortal Regiment
• Religious Historia from religious to national narrative
• The Church of the Holy Martyrs Adrian and Natalia in Staro-Panovo – cosmopolitan memory of war
• The Icon of St. Nina of Georgia – international memory of the Blockade
• The Sanctuary in Butovo – the mournful memory of new martyrs
• The Sanctuary in Katyn – Orthodoxy as a tool of reconciliation
• The Sanctuary at Bolshaya Lubyanka – victorious memory of the new martyrs
• The Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces – national sanctuary of war
• From Orthodox Rus’ to ‘Russia- My History’ – de-Orthodoxizing religious historia
• Conclusions
• List of Recorded Interviews
• Bibliography
• Index
• Series Index