Russia’s Hero Cities: From Postwar Ruins to Soviet Heroarchy by Ivo Mijnssen
Journal: The Modern Language Review
Year: 2022

Reviewed by: Russia’s Hero Cities: From Postwar Ruins to Soviet Heroarchy by Ivo Mijnssen Adrienne M. Harris Russia’s Hero Cities: From Postwar Ruins to Soviet Heroarchy. By Ivo Mijnssen. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2021. xxii+310 pp. £33. ISBN 978– 02–5305622–1. In this volume Ivo Mijnssen uses the thirteen ‘Hero Cities’ of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus as a lens to understand how Soviet officials shaped war memory through ritualized space. He argues that the designation of hero citie