War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Dec 06, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9783319665221
Description: This edited collection contributes to the current vivid multidisciplinary debate on East European memory politics and the post-communist instrumentalization and re-mythologization of World War II memories. The book focuses on the three Slavic countries of post-Soviet Eastern Europe? Russia, Ukraine and Belarus? the epicentre of Soviet war suffering, and the heartland of the Soviet war myth. The collection gives insight into the persistence of the Soviet commemorative culture and the myth of the Great Patriotic War in the post-Soviet space. It also demonstrates that for geopolitical, cultural, and historical reasons the political uses of World War II differ significantly across Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, with important ramifications for future developments in the region and beyond.
Notes: Source title: War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies)