Digging up Old Stories: How the Soviet Myths of Allied Intervention into the Russian North in 1918–1919 are used in the Context of Russia’s War in Ukraine. The Case of Mudyug Concentration Camp Museum
Journal: Politologija
Year: 2024

The mythology of the foreign interference into the Russian civil war goes to the heart of the memory politics in Putin’s Russia today, most recently in connection with the invasion in Ukraine. In a bid to unite the country against perceived threats from the NATO alliance, the Russian leadership engages Soviet narratives going back to the Allied intervention into North Russia in 1918–1920, as a deterrent against association with the West. During Soviet times multiple memorials were created in the