Night of Stone (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Catherine Merridale
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: The twentieth century
- Setting: Russia
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Communism or communists, Twentieth century, World War II, Death or dying, Totalitarianism, Russia or Russian people, Church or churches, Russian Revolution, Orthodox Eastern Church, Famines, Survival
- Locales: Russia
Catherine Merridale’s Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth Century Russia is an evocative meditation on the meaning of life in the face of atrocity and catastrophe. Merridale situates her study in a land where such musings bear especial significance. Russia in the twentieth century experienced a string of disasters, which resulted in a level of mortality not seen in a European country since the days of the Black Death in the fourteenth century. War, famine, and repression took a human toll that probably reached fifty million lives, and the figure arguably could be...
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