War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus

✍ Scribed by Julie Fedor, Markku Kangaspuro, Jussi Lassila, Tatiana Zhurzhenko (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 519
• Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.
The chapters 'Introduction: War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus', ‘From the Trauma of Stalinism to the Triumph of Stalingrad: The Toponymic Dispute over Volgograd’ and 'The “Partisan Republic”: Colonial Myths and Memory Wars in Belarus' are published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.
The chapter 'Memory, Kinship, and Mobilization of the Dead: The Russian State and the “Immortal Regiment” Movement' is published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvii
Introduction: War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus (Julie Fedor, Simon Lewis, Tatiana Zhurzhenko)....Pages 1-40
Front Matter ....Pages 41-41
Political Uses of the Great Patriotic War in Post-Soviet Russia from Yeltsin to Putin (Olga Malinova)....Pages 43-70
“Unhappy Is the Person Who Has No Motherland”: National Ideology and History Writing in Lukashenka’s Belarus (Per Anders Rudling)....Pages 71-105
Reclaiming the Past, Confronting the Past: OUN–UPA Memory Politics and Nation Building in Ukraine (1991–2016) (Yuliya Yurchuk)....Pages 107-137
Front Matter ....Pages 139-139
From the Trauma of Stalinism to the Triumph of Stalingrad: The Toponymic Dispute Over Volgograd (Markku Kangaspuro, Jussi Lassila)....Pages 141-170
When Stalin Lost His Head: World War II and Memory Wars in Contemporary Ukraine (Serhii Plokhy)....Pages 171-188
“We Should be Proud Not Sorry”: Neo-Stalinist Literature in Contemporary Russia (Philipp Chapkovski)....Pages 189-207
Front Matter ....Pages 209-209
Successors to the Great Victory: Afghan Veterans in Post-Soviet Belarus (Felix Ackermann)....Pages 211-255
Generational Memory and the Post-Soviet Welfare State: Institutionalizing the “Children of War” in Post-Soviet Russia (Tatiana Zhurzhenko)....Pages 257-280
Ostarbeiters of the Third Reich in Ukrainian and European Public Discourses: Restitution, Recognition, Commemoration (Gelinada Grinchenko)....Pages 281-304
Front Matter ....Pages 305-305
Memory, Kinship, and the Mobilization of the Dead: The Russian State and the “Immortal Regiment” Movement (Julie Fedor)....Pages 307-345
The Holocaust in the Public Discourse of Post-Soviet Ukraine (Andrii Portnov)....Pages 347-370
The “Partisan Republic”: Colonial Myths and Memory Wars in Belarus (Simon Lewis)....Pages 371-396
Front Matter ....Pages 397-397
Great Patriotic War Memory in Sevastopol: Making Sense of Suffering in the “City of Military Glory” (Judy Brown)....Pages 399-427
On Victims and Heroes: (Re)Assembling World War II Memory in the Border City of Narva (Elena Nikiforova)....Pages 429-463
War Memorials in Karelia: A Place of Sorrow or Glory? (Aleksandr V. Antoshchenko, Valentina V. Volokhova, Irina S. Shtykova)....Pages 465-493
Back Matter ....Pages 495-506

✦ Subjects

Cultural and Media Studies, general