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

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Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of figures List of tables Notes on contributors Acknowledgments 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 Index