Original in its coverage of the subregion of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine
Addresses the important developments in the region in the wake of the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea and the war in Ukraine
Features empirically rich case studies on multiple scales, from the local, to the national, and through to the transnational

Original in its coverage of the subregion of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine Addresses the important developments in the region in the wake of the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea and the war in Ukraine Features empirically rich case studies on multiple scales, from the local, to the national, and through to the transnational Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Julie Fedor is Lecturer in Modern European History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Markku Kangaspuro is Professor and Research Director at the Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Jussi Lassila works as a Senior Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland.

Tatiana Zhurzhenko is Research Director of the Ukraine and Russia Programs at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, Austria.

Zusammenfassung
Original in its coverage of the subregion of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine
Addresses the important developments in the region in the wake of the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea and the war in Ukraine
Features empirically rich case studies on multiple scales, from the local, to the national, and through to the transnational

Inhalt

1. Introduction: War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, by Julie Fedor, Simon M. Lewis and Tatiana Zhurzhenko.- Part I. Nation-Building and Memories of World War II.- 2. Political Uses of the Great Patriotic War in Post-Soviet Russia from Yeltsin to Putin, by Olga Malinova.- 3. Unhappy is the Person who has no Motherland: National Ideology and History Writing in Lukashenka's Belarus, by Per Anders Rudling.- 4. Reclaiming the Past, Confronting the Past: OUNUPA Memory Politics and Nation-Building in Ukraine (19912016), by Yuliya Yurchuk.- Part II. In Stalin's Shadow.- 5. From the Trauma of Stalinism to the Triumph of Stalingrad: The Toponymic Dispute over Volgograd, by Markku Kangaspuro and Jussi Lassila.- 6. When Stalin Lost His Head: World War II and Memory Wars in Contemporary Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy.- 7. We Should be Proud not Sorry: Neo-Stalinist Literature in Contemporary Russia, by Philipp Chapkovski.- Part III. New Agents and Communities of Memory.- 8. Successors to the Great Victory: Afghan Veterans in Post-Soviet Belarus, by Felix Ackermann.- 9. Generational Memory and the Post-Soviet Welfare State: Institutionalizing the Children of War in Post-Soviet Russia, by Tatiana Zhurzhenko.- 10. Ostarbeiters of the Third Reich in Ukrainian and European Public Discourses: Restitution, Recognition, Commemoration, by Gelinada Grinchenko.- Part IV. Old/New Narratives and Myths.- 11. Memory, Kinship, and Mobilization of the Dead: the Russian State and the Immortal Regiment Movement, by Julie Fedor.- 12. The Holocaust in the Public Discourse of Post-Soviet Ukraine, by Andriy Portnov.- 13. The Partisan Republic: Colonial Myths and Memory Wars in Belarus, by Simon M. Lewis.- Part V. Local Cases.-14. Great Patriotic War Memory in Sevastopol: Making Sense of Suffering in the City of Military Glory, by Judy Brown.- 15. On Victims and Heroes: (Re)assembling World War II Memory in Border City of Narva, by Elena Nikiforova.- 16. War Memorials in Karelia: A Place of Sorrow or Glory?, by Aleksandr V. Antoshchenko, Irina S. Shtykova, and Valentina V. Volokhova.