Communities of the Dead
Secularizing Cemeteries in Communist Yugoslavia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10516105 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lilly Lilly (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 97 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 676-676 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Slavonic and East European Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6795 • E-ISSN: 2222-4327 |
| Publisher | Maney Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.97.4.0676 |
| OpenAlex | W2977288277 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This article describes the efforts of the Communist regime in Yugoslavia to effect the transition from churchyard to cemetery in three Republics — Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia-Hercegovina — by removing burial spaces from the control of religious communities and creating modern municipal cemeteries in the years from 1945–95. Ultimately, it concludes that the process was unsuccessful, at least partly because the Communist regime failed to grasp the role of the dead in cultural change. In the absence of direction from above and facing strong ethno-religious and sepulchral traditions, cemetery administrators simply left the old structures and divisions in place. Thus, even after the regime had dismantled the institutional power of the religious organizations in cemeteries, it failed to create its own communities of the dead
Ancient history · Archaeology · Communism · Communist state · Economic history · Geography · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Archaeological Research and Protection · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |