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

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

Taylor & Francis

The Memory of the Second World War in Soviet and Post-Soviet RussiaAuthor(s): David L. Hoffmann\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367701765, 978-0367701765\nSynopsis\nThis volume showcases important new research on World War II memory, both in the Soviet Union and in Russia today.\n\nThrough an examination of war remembrance in its various formsofficial histories, school textbooks, museums, monuments, literature, films, and Victory Day paradeschapters illustrate how the heroic narrative of the war was established in Soviet times and how it continues to shape war memorialization under Putin. This war narrative resonates with the Russian population due to decades of Soviet commemoration, which continued virtually uninterrupted into the post-Soviet period. Major themes of the volume include the use of World War II memory for political legitimation and patriotic mobilization; the striking continuities between Soviet a.

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