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Author Petrone, Karen.

Title The Great War in Russian memory / Karen Petrone.

Publication Info. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 385 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies
Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: The Great War in Russian memory -- Spirituality, the supernatural, and the memory of World War I -- The paradoxes of gender in Soviet war memory -- Violence, morality, and the conscience of the warrior -- World War I and the definition of Russianness -- Arrested history -- Disappearance and reappearance -- Legacies of the Great War.
Summary Karen Petrone shatters the notion that World War I was a forgotten war in the Soviet Union. Although never officially commemorated, the Great War was the subject of a lively discourse about religion, heroism, violence, and patriotism during the interwar period. Using memoirs, literature, films, military histories, and archival materials, Petrone reconstructs Soviet ideas regarding the motivations for fighting, the justification for killing, the nature of the enemy, and the qualities of a hero. She reveals how some of these ideas undermined Soviet notions of military honor and patriotism while others reinforced them. As the political culture changed and war with Germany loomed during the Stalinist 1930s, internationalist voices were silenced and a nationalist view of Russian military heroism and patriotism prevailed.
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Subject World War (1914-1918)
World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Influence.
Collective memory -- Soviet Union -- History.
Collective memory.
Soviet Union.
History.
War memorials -- Soviet Union -- History.
War memorials.
War and society -- Soviet Union -- History.
War and society.
Political culture -- Soviet Union -- History.
Political culture.
Patriotism -- Soviet Union -- History.
Patriotism.
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1936-1953
1914-1953
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Petrone, Karen. Great War in Russian memory. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2011 9780253356178 (DLC) 2011007765 (OCoLC)663954297
ISBN 9780253001443
0253001447
9780253356178
0253356172