Verfasst von:	Brunstedt, Jonathan [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	The Soviet myth of World War II
Titelzusatz:	patriotic memory and the Russian question in the USSR
Verf.angabe:	Jonathan Brunstedt, Texas A&M University
Verlagsort:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY ; Port Melbourne, Australia ; New Delhi, India ; Singapore
Verlag:	Cambridge University Press
Jahr:	2021
Umfang:	xiii, 306 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Illustrationen, Karten
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare
Fussnoten:	Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 267-297 ; Enthält ein Register
ISBN:	978-1-108-49875-3
	1-108-49875-2
Abstract:	How did a socialist society, ostensibly committed to Marxist ideals of internationalism and global class struggle, reconcile itself to notions of patriotism, homeland, Russian ethnocentrism, and the glorification of war? In this provocative new history, Jonathan Brunstedt pursues this question through the lens of the myth and remembrance of victory in World War II – arguably the central defining event of the Soviet epoch. The book shows that while the experience and legacy of the conflict did much to reinforce a sense of Russian primacy and Russian-dominated ethnic hierarchy, the story of the war enabled an alternative, supra-ethnic source of belonging, which subsumed Russian and non-Russinan loyalties alike to the Soviet whole. The tension and competition between Russocentric and 'internationalist' conceptions of victory, which burst into the open during the late 1980s, reflected a wider struggle over the nature of patriotic identity in a multiethnic society that continues to reverberate in the post-Soviet space. The books sheds new ligth on long-standing questions linked to the politics of remembrance and provides a crucial historical context for the patriotic revival of the war's memory in Russia today.
DOI:	doi:10.1017/9781108595773
URL:	Cover: https://assets.cambridge.org/97811084/98753/cover/9781108498753.jpg
	Inhaltsverzeichnis: http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/exlibris/aleph/a23_1/apache_media/TQ2RRNR1J87MHUJ173CHDFTNRV6NPC.pdf
	Rezension: https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-128331
	DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108595773
Schlagwörter:	(g)Russland    / (s)Zweiter Weltkrieg    / (z)Geschichte 1938-
	(g)Sowjetunion    / (s)Patriotismus    / (s)Kollektives Gedächtnis    / (s)Zweiter Weltkrieg <Motiv>    / (s)Russland <Motiv>    / (z)Geschichte 1945-1991
	(s)Nationalbewusstsein    / (s)Nationalismus    / (s)Patriotismus    / (s)Zweiter WeltkriegMotiv    / (g)Sowjetunion
Sprache:	eng
RVK-Notation:	NB 3400
	NQ 2650
	NQ 8294
K10plus-PPN:	1757508848