Making sense of war
Subtitle: the Second World War and the fate of the Bolshevik Revolution
By: Amir Weiner.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Psychological aspects; World War, 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union; World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union; World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Soviet Union; World War, 1939-1945 -- Ukraine -- Vinnyt͡s︡i͡a︡ Region; World War, 1939-1945 -- Propaganda; Propaganda, Soviet -- History; Communism -- Soviet Union -- History; Vinnyt͡s︡i͡a︡ Region (Ukraine) -- History -- 20th century
Description: "In making Sense of War, Amir Weiner reconceptualizes the entire historical experience of the Soviet Union from a new perspective, that of World War II. Breaking with the conventional interpretation that views World War II as a post-revolutionary addendum, Weiner situates this event at the crux of the development of the Soviet - not just the Stalinist - system.

Through a richly detailed look at Soviet society as a whole, and at one Ukrainian region in particular, the author shows how World War II came to define the ways in which members of the political elite a well as ordinary citizens viewed the world and acted upon their beliefs and ideologies."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-410) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART I: DELINEATING THE BODY POLITIC; title: One; title: Myth and Power: The Making of a Postwar Elite; title: Two; title: "Living Up to the Calling of a Communist": Purification; title: of the Rank and File; title: PART II: DELINEATING THE BODY SOCIOETHNIC; title: Three; title: Excising Evil; title: Four; title: Memory of Excision, Excisionary Memory; title: PART m: THE MAKING OF A POSTWAR SOVIET NATION; title: Five; title: Integral Nationalism in the Trial of War; title: Six; title: Peasants to Soviets, Peasants to Ukrainians; title: Afterword: A Soviet World without Soviet Power,; title: a Myth of War without War; title: Bibliography; title: Index.