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Current Issue

Vol. 18 No. 2 (2026): Sacred Spaces of Memory in Contemporary Russia

Published: 16.10.2026

Guest edited by
Olga Rusinova and Tatiana Voronina

Introduction to the Thematic Section

Sacred Spaces of Memory in Contemporary Russia

Olga Rusinova, Tatiana Voronina
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Thematic Block (Articles)

A Place of Sorrow or Triumph? Modern Practices of Commemoration on the Example of the Church of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church in Lubyanka

Vladimir Kalashnikov
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Page 19-49
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War, Tourism, and Authenticity in Moscow’s Patriot Park

Tatiana Voronina
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Page 50-78
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Staging Memory, Making the Sacred: Ritual, Symbol, and Digital Practice in Russia’s Immortal Regiment

Ilya Utekhin
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Page 79-102
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Articles

Ambassadors of Active Aging: Analysis of Agency of Old-Age Leaders and Activists in the Optics of Structuration Theory

Margarita Astoyants, Tatyana Kienko
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Page 103-128
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“It Was Honest Journalism”: An Ethnography of the Functioning of the Independent Press in a Russian Region

Maria Sakaeva
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Page 129-159
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Not Quite “Russian Diaspora”: Plural Solidarities and Stratified Economies of New Russian Migrants

Maria Volkova, Ilya Lomakin, Olga Isupova, Kseniya Pavlenko, Anna Kuleshova
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Page 160-192
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An Essay on the Bucket: Infrastructures of Excretion and Their Normativity

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Kseniia Gavrilova, Valeria Vasilyeva
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Page 193-227
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Shifting Meanings of “Russian” in Czech Discourse: Insights from a Russian Film Festival

Ksenia Hain
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Page 228-249
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Book Reviews

Liliya Berezhnaya and Heidi Hein-Kircher, eds. Sacralization of History in Times of Crises: Modern Eastern Europe. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2026

Olga Rusinova
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Page 250-252
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Tyler C. Kirk. After the Gulag: A History of Memory in Russia’s Far North. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023

Zuzanna Bogumił
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Page 253-257
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Tatiana Vagramenko and Nadezhda Beliakova, eds. The Lives of Soviet Secret Agents: Religion and Police Surveillance in the USSR. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2025

Victoria Smolkin
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Page 258-261
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Linda J. Cook. Welfare Nationalism in Europe and Russia: The Politics of 21st Century Exclusionary and Inclusionary Migrations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024

Olga Gulina
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Page 262-268
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Nadine А. Sinno. A War of Colors: Graffiti and Street Art in Postwar Beirut. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2024

Amalya Dilanyan
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Page 269-275
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Brett Winestock. Written for the Drawer: Leonid Tsypkin, Uncensored Literature, and Soviet Jewishness. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2024

Valery Dymshits
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Page 276-279
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Aleksandra Martynenko. “Bezdushnye biurokraty”: Kak ustroena rabota organov opeki. Moscow: Fond podderzhki sotsialʹnykh issledovanii “Khamovniki”; Common Place, 2025

Ilya Utekhin
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Page 280-284
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Alexander Rabinowitch. The Bolsheviks Survive: Petrograd, 1919. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2026

Anton Yurov
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Page 285-289
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Authors

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