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Fighting Russia's History Wars: Vladimir Putin and the Codification of World War II
Vladimir Putin shows remarkable interest in history in general and World War II in particular. This article explores this historian-president's attempts to codify the memory of this war in an open attempt to transmit a useful past to the younger generation. It argues that top-down models of historical memory are of little explanatory value in the Russian situation. The president rides a wave of historical revisionism that he shapes at the same time. Putin's government successfully uses it to mobilize Russian society against critical minorities within and perceived enemies without. The far-reaching consequences of this politicization for the history of World War II are sketched in the final section of the article.
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The Politics of Veteran Benefits in the Twentieth Century
What happened to veterans of the nations involved in the world
wars? How did they fare when they returned home and needed
benefits? How were they recognized-or not-by their governments and
fellow citizens? Where and under what circumstances did they obtain
an elevated postwar status?
In this sophisticated comparative history of government policies
regarding veterans, Martin Crotty, Neil J. Diamant, and Mark Edele
examine veterans' struggles for entitlements and benefits in the
United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Taiwan, the Soviet Union,
China, Germany, and Australia after both global conflicts. They
illuminate how veterans' success or failure in winning benefits
were affected by a range of factors that shaped their ability to
exert political influence. Some veterans' groups fought politicians
for improvements to their postwar lives; this lobbying, the authors
show, could set the foundation for beneficial veteran treatment
regimes or weaken the political forces proposing unfavorable
policies.
The authors highlight cases of veterans who secured (and in some
cases failed to secure) benefits and status after wars both won and
lost; within both democratic and authoritarian polities; under
liberal, conservative, and even Leninist governments; after wars
fought by volunteers or conscripts, at home or abroad, and for
legitimate or subsequently discredited causes. Veterans who
succeeded did so, for the most part, by forcing their agendas
through lobbying, protesting, and mobilizing public support.
The Politics of Veteran Benefits in the Twentieth Century
provides a large-scale map for a research field with a future:
comparative veteran studies.
eBook
The Politics of Veteran Benefits in the Twentieth Century
What happened to veterans of the nations involved in the world
wars? How did they fare when they returned home and needed
benefits? How were they recognized-or not-by their governments and
fellow citizens? Where and under what circumstances did they obtain
an elevated postwar status?
In this sophisticated comparative history of government policies
regarding veterans, Martin Crotty, Neil J. Diamant, and Mark Edele
examine veterans' struggles for entitlements and benefits in the
United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Taiwan, the Soviet Union,
China, Germany, and Australia after both global conflicts. They
illuminate how veterans' success or failure in winning benefits
were affected by a range of factors that shaped their ability to
exert political influence. Some veterans' groups fought politicians
for improvements to their postwar lives; this lobbying, the authors
show, could set the foundation for beneficial veteran treatment
regimes or weaken the political forces proposing unfavorable
policies.
The authors highlight cases of veterans who secured (and in some
cases failed to secure) benefits and status after wars both won and
lost; within both democratic and authoritarian polities; under
liberal, conservative, and even Leninist governments; after wars
fought by volunteers or conscripts, at home or abroad, and for
legitimate or subsequently discredited causes. Veterans who
succeeded did so, for the most part, by forcing their agendas
through lobbying, protesting, and mobilizing public support.
The Politics of Veteran Benefits in the Twentieth Century
provides a large-scale map for a research field with a future:
comparative veteran studies.
eBook
Toward a General Theory of Action in Total War and Genocide: Evgeny Finkel on Choice and Survival during the Holocaust
The experience of National Socialism and the Holocaust prompted a controversial set of psychological experiments about deference to authority.4 Their results have been used by historians to explain perpetrator choices,5 while providing a case study to others, who contextualized the “Milgram experiment” itself and provided an incisive, even scathing critique of its presuppositions.6 Such interdisciplinarity thus has the potential to turn acrimonious, as it did in one of the most recent clashes between political scientists and historians.7 Mostly, however, the exchange of ideas, concepts, and approaches has been fruitful and served to drive along both historical and social scientific research.[...]the test for Finkel’s conceptual apparatus will be its wider applicability.Survival depended on coping, cooperation, and compliance with the (Soviet) authorities.16 Elsewhere, the food situation was less catastrophic, but still severe enough to enforce conformity or cooperation, flanked by various coping strategies.17 Threats of violence and state attempts to control the movement of the population were such that one historian has described the wartime Soviet Union, only somewhat hyperbolically, as “a single forced labor camp.”18 And of course there was the actual labor camp universe, too, where histories of death and survival could also draw on Finkel’s typology in order to make sense of what people did and did not do.19 The resonances of Finkel’s work with the attempts of historians to understand the wide range of behaviors of Soviet citizens during World War II are indeed striking.
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