MEMORIALISING THE ROLE OF THE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES IN MILITARY CONFLICTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY: NARRATIVES AND ACTORS
Journal: Ural Historical Journal
Year: 2025

The authors focus on the intelligence services’ historical narratives about the role and significance of counterintelligence and intelligence officers during the Great Patriotic War (more broadly, in the history of Russia), embodied in monumental structures (monuments, memorial complexes, etc.) and related rituals. The study aims at analyzing the narratives of the special services employees about the Great Patriotic War which is the main object of the symbolic politics of domestic special servic