TY - JOUR A1 - Bekus, Nelly A2 - von Puttkamer, Joachim A2 - Kopeček, Michal A2 - Borodziej, Włodzimierz T1 - Between a National and a Global Mnemonic Agenda: Memory Activism Around the Kurapaty Memorial Site in Belarus T2 - Cultures of History Forum N2 - Kurapaty, the site of Stalin-era mass executions on the outskirts of Minsk, has long been a much contested space where memories and narratives of the Soviet past clashed. Against the backdrop of a national government that blocks any more critical engagement with the Soviet history of mass crimes, the article explores the way in which Kurapaty has been the birth place of various oppositional groups and memory activists who pursue rather different mnemonic agendas. KW - Belarus KW - Kurapaty KW - memorial KW - cemetery KW - Soviet crimes KW - Stalin KW - Remembrance KW - memory activism KW - activists KW - social memory KW - Weißrussland KW - Kurapaty KW - Gedenkstätte KW - Stalin, Iosif V. KW - Opposition KW - Kollektives Gedächtnis Y1 - 2019 UR - https://digital.herder-institut.de/publications/frontdoor/index/index/docId/185 ER -