Holocaust “sites of memory” in the urban landscape of Moscow created in the 1990s
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The present study answers the question of how Moscow's monuments and museums - “Sites of Memory” of the Holocaust - were conceived, negotiated, and materially realized in the 1990s, and analyzes how these memorials construct and sustain a post-Soviet memory of Jews murdered by the Nazis. Sources include archival documents from the collections of the state archives in Moscow, and the Archive of the Federation of Jewish Organizations and Communities “Vaad,” as well as periodicals, sources of personal origin, and Internet resources. It concludes that memory of the Holocaust in Russia has been appropriated by the “Politics of History” based on the narrative of the Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War. Moreover, the study uncovers the specific mechanisms of this process - from the topographical relocation of monuments to the renaming of memorials and the restriction of public access to the museum..
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Holocaust: Commemoration Holocaust: Memorials Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial Museums Memory Post-Communist Transitions
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Link to article (paywalled), Holocaust “sites of memory” in the urban landscape of Moscow created in the 1990s
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Holocaust “sites of memory” in the urban landscape of Moscow created in the 1990s. 2026: https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.1080/13501674.2026.2675242
