‘A dissonant note on the Neva’: Historical memory and city identity in Russia's second capital during the post-Stalin era

The importance of idealised visions of the past to local identity in twentieth-century St Petersburg and Leningrad has been widely recognised, but previous discussions have generally assumed an unproblematic continuation between the ‘Old St Petersburg’ preservationism of the early twentieth century...

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Main Author: Catriona Kelly
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2010-01-01
Series:Journal of Eurasian Studies
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1879366509000074