The memory of the Second World War in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia /
This volume showcases important new research on World War II memory, both in the Soviet Union and in Russia today. Through an examination of war remembrance in its various forms, official histories, school textbooks, museums, monuments, literature, films and Victory Day parades, chapters illustrate...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2022.
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| Series: | Routledge histories of Central and Eastern Europe.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the politics of commemoration in the Soviet Union and contemporary Russia / David L. Hoffmann
- Wartime mobilizational strategies and the origins of Soviet war memory / Jonathan Brunstedt
- Situating Stalin in the history of the Second World War / Yan Mann
- Victory Day before the cult: war commemoration in the USSR, 1945-1965 / Mischa Gabowitsch
- Teaching and remembering the Great Patriotic War in Soviet schools / Olga Konkka
- Representations of gender in Soviet war memorials / David L. Hoffmann
- Veterans remember the war in Soviet and post-Soviet fiction / Angela Brintlinger
- Lend-lease in war and Russian memory / Olga Kucharenko
- Politicizing war memorialization in Soviet and post-Soviet Sevastopol / Karl D. Qualls
- World War II memories and local media in the Russian North: Velikii Novgorod and Murmansk / Tatiana Zhurzhenko
- Parades in Russian memory culture / Yvonne Pörzgen
- Performing memory and its limits: Vladimir Putin and the celebration of World War II in Russia / Elizabeth A. Wood
- Holocaust discourse in Putin's Russia as a foreign policy tool / Anton Weiss-Wendt
- The war film and memory politics in Putin's Russia / Stephen M. Norris
- Jews, gender, and just wars: remembering and rewriting the Great Patriotic War in 2015 war films / Adrienne M. Harris
- The 21st-century memory of the Great Patriotic War in the "Russia-- My History" museum / Karen Petrone.