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War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
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War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus [electronic resource] / edited by Julie Fedor, Markku Kangaspuro, Jussi Lassila, Tatiana Zhurzhenko.
ISBN
9783319665238
Publication
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
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XXVII, 506 p. 20 illus : 1 online resource.
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This edited collection contributes to the current vivid multidisciplinary debate on East European memory politics and the post-communist instrumentalization and re-mythologization of World War II memories. At the same time, the book has a distinctive geographic focus through the concentration on the three Slavic countries of post-Soviet Eastern Europe—Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Together they comprise the epicentre of Soviet war suffering, and the heartland of the Soviet war myth. The contributions give insight into the persistence of the Soviet commemorative culture of World War II and the myth of the Great Patriotic War in the post-Soviet space. The volume also demonstrates that due to various geopolitical, cultural, and historical reasons the political uses of World War II in post-Soviet Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus differ significantly, with important ramifications for future developments in the region and beyond. The chapters 'Introduction: War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus', ‘From the Trauma of Stalinism to the Triumph of Stalingrad: The Toponymic Dispute over Volgograd’ and 'The “Partisan Republic”: Colonial Myths and Memory Wars in Belarus' are published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com. The chapter 'Memory, Kinship, and Mobilization of the Dead: The Russian State and the “Immortal Regiment” Movement' is published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license at link.springer.com. .
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Language
English
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January 11, 2018
Series
Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Contents
1. Introduction: War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, by Julie Fedor, Simon M. Lewis and Tatiana Zhurzhenko
Part I. Nation-Building and Memories of World War II
2. Political Uses of the Great Patriotic War in Post-Soviet Russia from Yeltsin to Putin, by Olga Malinova
3. “Unhappy is the Person who has no Motherland”: National Ideology and History Writing in Lukashenka’s Belarus, by Per Anders Rudling
4. Reclaiming the Past, Confronting the Past: OUN–UPA Memory Politics and Nation-Building in Ukraine (1991–2016), by Yuliya Yurchuk
Part II. In Stalin’s Shadow
5. From the Trauma of Stalinism to the Triumph of Stalingrad: The Toponymic Dispute over Volgograd, by Markku Kangaspuro and Jussi Lassila
6. When Stalin Lost His Head: World War II and Memory Wars in Contemporary Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy
7. “We Should be Proud not Sorry”: Neo-Stalinist Literature in Contemporary Russia, by Philipp Chapkovski
Part III. New Agents and Communities of Memory
8. Successors to the Great Victory: Afghan Veterans in Post-Soviet Belarus, by Felix Ackermann
9. Generational Memory and the Post-Soviet Welfare State: Institutionalizing the “Children of War” in Post-Soviet Russia, by Tatiana Zhurzhenko
10. Ostarbeiters of the Third Reich in Ukrainian and European Public Discourses: Restitution, Recognition, Commemoration, by Gelinada Grinchenko
Part IV. Old/New Narratives and Myths
11. Memory, Kinship, and Mobilization of the Dead: the Russian State and the “Immortal Regiment” Movement, by Julie Fedor
12. The Holocaust in the Public Discourse of Post-Soviet Ukraine, by Andriy Portnov
13. The “Partisan Republic”: Colonial Myths and Memory Wars in Belarus, by Simon M. Lewis
Part V. Local Cases.-14. Great Patriotic War Memory in Sevastopol: Making Sense of Suffering in the “City of Military Glory”, by Judy Brown
15. On Victims and Heroes: (Re)assembling World War II Memory in Border City of Narva, by Elena Nikiforova
16. War Memorials in Karelia: A Place of Sorrow or Glory?, by Aleksandr V. Antoshchenko, Irina S. Shtykova, and Valentina V. Volokhova.
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