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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Bodies of Lenin
Contributor:
Yurchak, Alexei
Published:
University of California Press, 2015
Published in:
Representations, 129 (2015) 1, Seite 116-157
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/rep.2015.129.1.116
ISSN:
0734-6018;
1533-855X
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
This essay analyzes the project of maintaining the body of V. I. Lenin in the Lenin Mausoleum in Moscow for the past ninety years. It focuses on the materiality of this particular body, the unique biological science that developed around the project, and the peculiar political role this body has performed.