<P>This volume showcases important new research on World War II memory, both in the Soviet Union and in Russia today.</P><P>Through an examination of war remembrance in its various forms¿official histories, school textbooks, museums, monuments, literature, films, and Victory Day parades¿chapters 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 and post-Soviet commemorative practices; the place of Holocaust memorialization in contemporary Russia; Putin¿s invocation of the war to bolster national pride and international prestige; and the relationship between individual memor
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This coursebook covers Paper 3, History of Europe, Topic 16: The Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia (1924-2000) of the History for the IB Diploma syllabus for first assessment in 2017. Tailored to the Higher Level requirements of the IB syllabus and...
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This book provides a novel approach towards the urban life of working-class communities, using the example of Russia¿s post-industrial cities. Focusing on the sensual, imaginary and practical aspects of everyday struggles, this approach helps explain...
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<P>Despite Soviet Russia having been one of the first major powers to decriminalise homosexual acts between men, attitudes towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in contemporary Russia and the other post-Soviet states have...
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