Russia’s Arlington? The Federal Military Memorial Cemetery near Moscow

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Make It Till You Break It: Toward a Typology of De‐Commemoration

“…Originating in a period in which states needed to consolidate themselves as communities (Anderson 1991) and forge a unitary national identity, archetypal architectural collective memory was mainly expressed through material commemoration in the form of "tangible, monolithic, recognizable, permanent, literally carved in stone" (Olick 2013:89). Unique historical emphasis was thus given to national and physical characteristics of official commemoration sites in public spaces, among them street names (Azaryahu 1996(Azaryahu , 2021Pinchevski and Torgovnik 2002), museums (Katriel 1997;Klein 2020;Noy 2015;Tinsley 2019), historical parks (Loughran et al 2018), and cemeteries (Azaryahu 1995;Gabowitsch 2016;Guttel 2017;McElya 2016;Ozouf 1998), not to mention monuments, statues, and memorials that commemorate historical figures and events that were considered most important to the nation (Ben-Amos 1993Minta 2009).…”

“…Unique historical emphasis was thus given to national and physical characteristics of official commemoration sites in public spaces, among them street names (Azaryahu 1996, 2021; Pinchevski and Torgovnik 2002), museums (Katriel 1997; Klein 2020; Noy 2015; Tinsley 2019), historical parks (Loughran et al. 2018), and cemeteries (Azaryahu 1995; Gabowitsch 2016; Guttel 2017; McElya 2016; Ozouf 1998), not to mention monuments, statues, and memorials that commemorate historical figures and events that were considered most important to the nation (Ben‐Amos 1993, 2000; Minta 2009).…”