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The Soviet Myth of World War II
The Soviet Myth of World War II
The Soviet Myth of World War II
Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Print publication year:
2021
Online ISBN:
9781108595773
The Soviet Myth of World War II
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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 exceptionalism and Russian-led ethnic hierarchy, the story of the wa