The Memory of the Second World War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

ISBN-13: 9780367701765 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 370 str.

David L. Hoffmann

Opis

This volume showcases important new research on World War II memory, both in the Soviet Union and in Russia today. Authored by an international group of distinguished specialists, this collection is ideal for scholars of Russia across a range of disciplines, including history, political science, sociology, and cultural studies.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Politics of Commemoration in the Soviet Union and Contemporary Russia  Part I: Soviet Remembrance of the War  1. Wartime Mobilizational Strategies and the Origins of Soviet War Memory  2. Situating Stalin in the History of the Second World War  3. Victory Day before the Cult: War Commemoration in the USSR, 1945–1965  4. Teaching and Remembering the Great Patriotic War in Soviet Schools  5. Representations of Gender in Soviet War Memorials  Part II: Soviet and Post-Soviet War Memory  6. Veterans Remember the War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Fiction  7. Lend-Lease in War and Russian Memory  8. Politicizing War Memorialization in Soviet and Post-Soviet Sevastopol  9. World War II Memories and Local Media in the Russian North: Velikii Novgorod and Murmansk  10. Parades in Russian Memory Culture  Part III: Representations of the War in the Putin Era  11. Performing Memory and Its Limits: Vladimir Putin and the Celebration of World War II in Russia  12. Holocaust Discourse in Putin’s Russia as a Foreign Policy Tool  13. The War Film and Memory Politics in Putin’s Russia  14. Jews, Gender, and Just Wars: Remembering and Rewriting the Great Patriotic War in 2015 War Films  15. The 21st-Century Memory of the Great Patriotic War in the “Russia—My History” Museum

O autorze

David L. Hoffmann is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History at The Ohio State University, USA. He is the author of four monographs, Peasant Metropolis: Social Identities in Moscow, 1929–1941 (1994); Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity (2003); Cultivating the Masses: Modern State Practices and Soviet Socialism, 1914–1939 (2011); and The Stalinist Era (2018). He also edited Russian Modernity: Politics, Knowledge, Practices (2000); and Stalinism: The Essential Readings (2002).