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.
Introduction: Name and Number of the Dead; 1 Everyall of the Kommunarka Mass Graves; 2 The Judgment Day of History; 3 A Faceless Name; 4 The Mass of a Mass Atrocity; 5 On Infinite Return of Names of the Dead at the Solovetsky Stone; Conclusion: The Aftermath of the Archive