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Being the report of the commission to dedicate the monument erected by the State of New York in Andersonville, Georgia to commemorate the heroism, sacrifices and patriotism of more than nine thousands of her sons who were confined in that prison, of whom more than two thousand five hundred perished there, with an account of services of the New York resident surviving Andersonville veterans held thereat and also enroute at Richmond and Danville, VA., Salisbury, N.C., and Lookout Mountain, Tenn., April 26-30, 1914.
This study analyzes how public bereavement became cemented into the broad geography of Russian culture with the appearance of experiential and local memorials in the 1960s after a half century of instability, contestation, and absence. The author shows how monument builders responded to a need from the population to share an accessible war experience apart from the exclusive Bolshevik memorial culture. He argues that this development of war commemoration has amplified the role of war hero memorialization as an anchor of public stability and social solidarity in Putin’s Russia, where there is little consensus about the past, present, or future.
Excerpt from The Monument of Patriotism, Being a Collection of Biographical Sketches of the Lives and Characters of Some of Those Men Who Signed the Independence of America: And Brief Sketches of Many Other Eminent Statesmen; Also, Generals and Heroes Who Fought and Bled in the Revolutionary War; And Also, the Most Prominent Characters of the Late War With Great Britain The ingratitude of Republics to their distinguished benefactors and heroes, has long been proverbial. But this opin ion, like many others with relation to Re publican governments, had its origin in the examples of Greece and Rome, and so far as imparts that ingratitude to those who render important services to their country, is peculiar to, or in any way a consequence of Republican institutions, is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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