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Original Title:	Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia
ISBN:	0142000639 (ISBN13: 9780142000632)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee (2001), W.H. Heinemann Award (2001)

Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia

Catherine Merridale

Paperback | Pages: 402 pages

Rating: 4.15 | 136 Users | 20 Reviews

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During the twentieth century, Russia, Ukraine, and the other territories of the former Soviet Union experienced more bloodshed and violent death than anywhere else on earth: fifty million dead in an epic of destruction that encompassed war, revolution, famine, epidemic, and political purges. In Night of Stone, Catherine Merridale asks Russians difficult questions about how their country's volatile past has affected their everyday lives, aspirations, dreams, and nightmares. Drawing upon evidence from rare Imperial archives, Soviet propaganda, memoirs, letters, newspapers, literature, psychiatric studies, and interviews, Night of Stone provides a highly original and revealing history of modern Russia.

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Title	:	Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia
Author	:	Catherine Merridale
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 402 pages
Published	:	March 26th 2002 by Penguin Books (first published January 1st 2000)
Categories	:	History. Cultural. Russia. Nonfiction. Russian History

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For a book of history to earn a 5 star rating from me, it has to both be written in a compelling manner, and teach me something, or give me perspective on an aspect of history I was unaware of before. This book does just that. Russia/Soviet Union in the 20th century endured one of the most prolonged series of episodes of bloodshed and death of any nation in the age of civilization (that wasnt destroyed in the process). And yet, we still, I think, have a tendency to view the multitude of stolen

A difficult, harrowing and depressing book but also a very necessary one. The author traces the way death was seen in pre-Soviet Russia to a short extent then examines the horrible, frequent, and many deaths in early Soviet times, World War II, and Stalin's purges. Her view of death as a historian well-versed in Russian culture and Soviet history allows us to see how the Russian people by the time of Chernenko were nearly utterly resigned to famine, loss, and death. We still see this in the

Brilliantly researched. A breath of fresh air on the academic market as she speaks Russian and is interested in listening to everyday Russians, and not simply relying on the archives and libraries. Conclusion is somewhat abstract, indicative perhaps of the subject material.

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A stunning book. As in stun gun. As in holy shit. As in jaw sagging. As in...

Page 153 my bookBut it was in Red Square that the late leaders [Lenin] presence would be most visible for the rest of the twentieth century. Soviet power, which sought in so many ways to deny the power of death, turned the heart of its capital, the ceremonial core of its government, into a grave. The rebels who had forced open the coffins of the orthodox saints now jealously preserved a relic of their own. They strenuously denied the continuity with religion, with the past. But the irony was

Compassionate, big history of death in Russia.