Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow

The book examines a version of archival activism that is centred on various practices of documentation and commemoration of many dead victims of historical violence in Russia to understand what kind of historicity is produced when a single name is added to an endless list.

Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Sociology at the Department of Sociology at the University of Glasgow, UK.