The Great War in Russian Memory
Karen Petrone shatters the notion that World War I was a forgotten war inthe Soviet Union. Although never officially commemorated, the Great War was thesubject of a lively discourse about religion, heroism, violence, and patriotismduring the interwar period. Using memoirs, literature, films, military histories, and archival materials, Petrone reconstructs Soviet ideas regarding the motivationsfor fighting, the justification for killing, the nature of the enemy, and thequalities of a hero. She reveals how some of these ideas undermined Soviet notionsof military honor and patriotism while others reinforced them. As the politicalculture changed…
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- ISBN: 978-0-253-35617-8
- EAN: 9780253356178
- Produktnummer: 10718765
- Verlag: Indiana Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 385 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.9 cm x D3.5 cm 703 g
- Gewicht: 703
- Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.
Über den Autor
Karen Petrone is Associate Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. She is author of Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin (IUP, 2000) and editor (with Valerie Kivelson, Michael S. Flier, and Nancy Shields Kollmann) of The New Muscovite Cultural History: A Collection in Honor of Daniel B. Rowland.
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