title: Rock Beats the Wall? On Commemorative Practices in Post-Soviet Russia
abstract: Abstract This paper focuses on the case analysis of the memorial to the victims of state terror – the Wall of Grief ( Stena skorbi ) – which was unveiled on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the November 7, 1917, coup d’état. Using this example, we have attempted to elaborate a structure for a more complex analysis of the memory of past regimes’ manifestation and to create a methodological base for their comparison. We have based our research on the discourse theory by the so-called Essex Scho
journal: Journal of Nationalism Memory & Language Politics