2015
DOI: 10.1111/glal.12089
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THE MEMORIAL AS A MAGNIFYING GLASS: INTERPRETING THE STALIN PLAQUE IN VIENNA1

Abstract: 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 p… Show more

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