Fedor, Julie
War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
1. Introduction: War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus
Julie Fedor, Simon Lewis, Tatiana Zhurzhenko
Part I. Memories of World War II and Nation-Building
2. Political Uses of the Great Patriotic War in Post-Soviet Russia from Yeltsin to Putin
Olga Malinova
3. “Unhappy Is the Person Who Has No Motherland”: National Ideology and History Writing in Lukashenka’s Belarus
Per Anders Rudling
4. Reclaiming the Past, Confronting the Past: OUN–UPA Memory Politics and Nation Building in Ukraine (1991–2016)
Yuliya Yurchuk
Part II. In Stalin’s Shadow
5. From the Trauma of Stalinism to the Triumph of Stalingrad: The Toponymic Dispute Over Volgograd
Markku Kangaspuro, Jussi Lassila
6. When Stalin Lost His Head: World War II and Memory Wars in Contemporary Ukraine
Serhii Plokhy
7. “We Should be Proud Not Sorry”: Neo-Stalinist Literature in Contemporary Russia
Philipp Chapkovski
Part III. New Agents and Communities of Memory
8. Successors to the Great Victory: Afghan Veterans in Post-Soviet Belarus
Felix Ackermann
9. Generational Memory and the Post-Soviet Welfare State: Institutionalizing the “Children of War” in Post-Soviet Russia
Tatiana Zhurzhenko
10. Ostarbeiters of the Third Reich in Ukrainian and European Public Discourses: Restitution, Recognition, Commemoration
Gelinada Grinchenko
Part IV. Old/New Narratives and Myths
11. Memory, Kinship, and the Mobilization of the Dead: The Russian State and the “Immortal Regiment” Movement
Julie Fedor
12. The Holocaust in the Public Discourse of Post-Soviet Ukraine
Andrii Portnov
13. The “Partisan Republic”: Colonial Myths and Memory Wars in Belarus
Simon Lewis
Part V. Local Cases
14. Great Patriotic War Memory in Sevastopol: Making Sense of Suffering in the “City of Military Glory”
Judy Brown
15. On Victims and Heroes: (Re)Assembling World War II Memory in the Border City of Narva
Elena Nikiforova
16. War Memorials in Karelia: A Place of Sorrow or Glory?
Aleksandr V. Antoshchenko, Valentina V. Volokhova, Irina S. Shtykova
Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Memory Studies, Russian, Soviet, and East European History
- Editor
- Fedor, Julie
- Kangaspuro, Markku
- Lassila, Jussi
- Zhurzhenko, Tatiana
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2017
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
- Page amount
- 27 pages
- Category
- Art, Art History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319665238
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-319-66522-1