The prominent Russian writer and Nobel Prize Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn

In 1949 the Austrian Communist Party (KPÖ) dedicated a memorial plaque to Stalin in Vienna. It commemorates his visit to the city while he wrote on the National Question in 1913. This plaque remains there until today. Because the memorial has lost its function in the communist cult of personality, this article offers an analysis of present-day memory culture surrounding the plaque in order to understand its current function as place of memory. My point of departure is journalistic texts discussing the Stalin plaque written in Austria in the twenty-first century. These repeat certain topoi and metaphors from transnational fictional and non-fictional works about Stalin's life and about radicals in Vienna in 1913.

Shortly before the Mexico Olympics, on 2 October 1968, student demonstrators were shot by the military on Tlatelolco Square in Mexico City, thus ending the local student movement and its mass protests. This paper explores the government's use of anti‐communism to ideologically justify this massacre in the context of the Cold War. The student movement was presented as a foreign, communist intervention that threatened Mexico's sovereignty. The paper analyses the weaknesses and contradictions of this official narrative by contrasting public and confidential reports. Finally, the marginal role of communism in the movement and its internal divisions are also outlined.

Este artículo ofrece una nueva lectura de la novela Los símbolos transparentes de Gonzalo Martré (1978), interpretándola como sátira sobre la matanza deTlatelolco y como un cuestionamiento general de la construcción de narrativas oficiales. El marco teórico utilizado para este análisis es el de la "sátira degenerativa" de Steven Weisenburger (1995). La adopción de esta teoría sobre un tipo de sátira postmoderna, grotesca, y escéptica se basa en el éxito que ha tenido como marco do interpretación en diferentes culturas. Usando esta teoría descifro la devastadora crítica social de la novela de Martré, enfocándome en su deconstrucción total de narrativas oficiales públicas o privadas sobre los sucesos del 2 de octubre de 1968 en la novela.

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