The Great War in Russian Memory

Awards:   Winner of A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2012.
Author:   Karen Petrone
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
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9780253356178


Pages:   408
Publication Date:   14 July 2011
Format:   Hardback
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  • Winner of A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2012.

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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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Author:   Karen Petrone
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780253356178


ISBN 10:   0253356172
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   14 July 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Great War in Russian Memory 2. Spirituality, the Supernatural, and the Memory of World War I 3. The Paradoxes of Gender in Soviet War Memory 4. Violence, Morality, and the Conscience of the Warrior 5. World War I and the Definition of Russianness 6. Arrested History 7. Disappearance and Reappearance 8. Legacies of the Great War Notes Bibliography Index

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An original work of serious scholarship... Petrone engages with a flourishing literature on the cultural consequences of the First World War. Peter Gatrell, author of A Whole Empire Walking Petrone makes very important contributions not only to the field of Russian and Soviet history but to the field of World War I studies as well. Joshua A. Sanborn, Lafayette College


An original work of serious scholarship... Petrone engages with a flourishing literature on the cultural consequences of the First World War. Peter Gatrell, author of A Whole Empire Walking Petrone makes very important contributions not only to the field of Russian and Soviet history but to the field of World War I studies as well. Joshua A. Sanborn, Lafayette College


Author Information

Karen Petrone is Associate Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. She is author of Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin (IUP, 2000) and editor (with Valerie Kivelson, Michael S. Flier, and Nancy Shields Kollmann) of The New Muscovite Cultural History: A Collection in Honor of Daniel B. Rowland.

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