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The Soviet Myth of World War II Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR 1st Edition by Jonathan Brunstedt ISBN 9781108498753 1108498752

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Author(s): Jonathan Brunstedt

ISBN(s): 9781108498753, 9781108595773, 1108498752, 1108595774

Edition: 1

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Year: 2021

Language: English

SKU: EB-35629144 Category: History - Russian & Soviet History Tag: Jonathan Brunstedt

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ISBN 10: 1108498752
ISBN 13: 9781108498753
Author: Jonathan Brunstedt

This pioneering monograph – a Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year – asks how a socialist society, ostensibly committed to Marxist ideals of internationalism and global class struggle, reconciled itself to notions of patriotism, homeland, Russian ethnocentrism, and the glorification of war. Through the lens of the myth and remembrance of victory in World War II, arguably the central defining event of the Soviet epoch, the book shows that while state historical narratives reinforced a sense of Russian primacy and Russian dominated ethnic hierarchy, the story of the war enabled an alternative, supra-ethnic source of belonging, which subsumed Russian and non-Russian loyalties alike to the Soviet whole. The tension and competition between Russocentric and ‘internationalist’ conceptions of victory, which burst into the open during the late 1980s, reflected a wider struggle over the nature of patriotic identity in a multiethnic society that continues to reverberate in the post-Soviet space. The book sheds new light on long standing questions linked to the politics of remembrance and provides a crucial historical context for the patriotic revival of the war’s memory in Russia today.

The Soviet Myth of World War II Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR 1st Edition Table of contents:

1 Stalin’s Toast

The Varieties of Postwar Patriotism

Elder Brother, Loyal Friend

Negotiating Russian Elder Brotherhood at the Periphery

“Our Russia Is No Longer the Same”

Conclusion

2 Victory Days

Threads of War Memory in Postwar Moscow

Commemoration as Mobilization

Moscow’s 800-Year Jubilee

Stalin’s Last Years