Ghosts of war : Nazi occupation and its aftermath in Soviet Belarus /

"How do states and societies confront the legacies of war and occupation, and what do truth, guilt, and justice mean in that process? In Ghosts of War, Franziska Exeler examines people's wartime choices and their aftermath in Belarus, a war-ravaged Soviet republic that was under Nazi occup...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Exeler, Franziska (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca, [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Subjects:	World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > Belarus. World War, 1939-1945 > Influence. Belarus > History > German occupation, 1941-1944. Belarus > Social conditions > 20th century. Belarus > Politics and government > 20th century. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Politics and government. Social aspects. Social conditions. Belarus. 1900-1999 History.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: truth, guilt, and justice in an illiberal state
Contested space: an East European borderland before 1941
At the heart of darkness: wartime choices, 1941-1944
Post-1944: the moment of return
Determining guilt: the Soviet politics of retribution
Loss, grief and reckonings: personal responses to the ghosts of war
Belarus, the partisan republic: narrating the years of war and occupation.