The Return to War and Violence: Case Studies on the Ussr, Russia, and Yugoslavia, 1979-2014

ISBN-13: 9780367109301 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 106 str.

Jan Claas Behrends

Opis

The book presents case studies on war, military and violence in the USSR, Russia and Yugoslavia. It helps to better understand the conflicts in Afghanistan, the Balkans and Chechnya and the emergence of violence in the post-Soviet space.

Spis treści

1. War, violence, and the military during late socialism and transition. Five case studies on the USSR, Russia, and Yugoslavia 2. Dedovshchina on trial. Some evidence concerning the last Soviet generation of "sons" and "grandfathers" 3. Between "ethnocide" and "genocide": violence and Otherness in the coverage of the Afghanistan and Chechnya wars 4. "Some call us heroes, others call us killers." Experiencing violent spaces: Soviet soldiers in the Afghan War 5. Dead heroes and living deserters: the Yugoslav People’s Army and the public of Valjevo, Serbia, on the verge of war 1991 6. Chechen women in war and exile: changing gender roles in the context of violence

O autorze

Jan C. Behrends is a research fellow at the Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF) in Potsdam. He teaches East European history at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. His areas of interested include modern dictatorships, urban studies and physical violence. His recent publications include "Races to Modernity: Metropolitan Aspirations in Eastern Europe, 1890-1940" (2014) and "Underground Publishing and the Public Sphere: Transnational Perspectives" (2014).