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The stuff of soldiers : a history of the Red Army in World War II through objects
\"This book tells the story of the Great Patriotic War via objects from spoons to tanks. It was the uniform world of material goods that united diverse soldiers in the ranks of the Red Army and was often all that separated civilians from soldiers\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Great War in Russian memory
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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Living Soviet in Ukraine from Stalin to Maidan
What the world is now witnessing in Ukraine is the cumulative effect of history and memory in the lives of the people of the region--and this book directly addresses those subjects.Although the majority of scholarship on the Soviet Union focuses on top-level political and intellectual elites, these groups were only tiny minorities.
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Soviet Veterans as an Entitlement Group, 1945-1955
The article explores processes of group integration and disintegration among Soviet veterans of World War II during the first postwar decade. Approaches that focus on generation, legal privilege, formal organization, social mobility, or ideological outlook miss the considerable sociocultural complexity of this group. Between the end of mass demobilization in 1948 and the foundation of the Soviet Committee of War Veterans in 1956, former soldiers were integrated neither as a generation nor as a status group with formal privileges and their own organization (as would be the case in later years). What held them together was instead a shared sense of entitlement based on wartime sacrifice. During the first postwar decade, therefore, Soviet veterans are best understood as an “entitlement group.” Only in the 1960s and 1970s was this entitlement group transformed into a status group that became one of the major pillars of the late Soviet order.
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Commemorative activities of the great war and the empowerment of elderly immigrant Soviet Jewish veterans in Israel
This study deals with the commemoration of the \"migrating past\" in a new country. The case in focus is the group of Red Army WWII veterans who immigrated to Israel in the 1990s. These elderly immigrant ex-soldiers turn to their combat past, the main symbolic capital in their struggle for belonging in the host country Performing commemorative work that is embedded in the mnemonic praxis of Soviet veteran culture, the elderly immigrants construct individual, collective and civic identities in their new homeland. The study sheds light on veterans' commemorative practices as a venue for struggling with the rupture created by the interweaving of old age and migration. The study objectifies the experience of war as a powerful symbolic resource for individual empowerment and social mobilization in the contexts of nation-states and flourishing militarism.
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Fighting to Belong: Soviet WWII Veterans in Israel
Focusing on a group of elderly immigrants from the former USSR living in Israel, this ethnographic study examines a matter that has received scant attention in the literature: immigration in old age and the complex relationship of older immigrants to the host country. Finding themselves in a situation of multiple marginality, these immigrants search for a means of belonging in their new country. In this particular group, a narrative of the past-that of their service in the Red Army during WWII-is the central symbolic resource mobilized in forging an identity of honor and esteem within the host society and in constructing their narrative of inclusion. By observing the present circumstances of the elderly immigrants' lives and exploring their pasts in light of sociopolitical factors and social memory frames of the former and host societies, the article demonstrates how a soldiering identity serves the veterans in restoring the rupture between past and present. The veterans' Victory Day parade held in Jerusalem, marking the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany, epitomizes their commemorative work and shows how their identity of belonging is constructed.
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Genre and Ideology in Vladimír Holan's Red Army Soldiers
Among Vladimír Holan's postwar poetic output, the cycle Rudoarmĕjci (Red army soldiers, 1947) enjoys high critical acclaim while the trio of his other works, Dík Sovĕtskému svazu (Thanks to the Soviet Union), Panychida (A memorial service), and the cycle Tobé (To you), is regarded as a crude exercise in propaganda. Peter Steiner argues that the main reason for this evaluative difference is that the genre of the cycle enables Holan to disseminate an ideological message similar to that of the unappreciated trio in a more subtle, less ostentatious manner. The first part of the article analyzes the various techniques of portraiture Holan employed to represent ordinary Russian soldiers (prosopopeia and ethopoeia). In the second part, Steiner discusses the genre's ideological potential. Since portrait by definition must depict an actual human subject, the very selection of the model and his or her features embroils such a work in a specific social reality and reflects the author's attitude toward it. This worldview, however, is not added to the text mechanically, from without, but comprises an integral part of the very mimetic apparatus that generates its overall meaning.
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Is a Military Coup Possible in Israel? Israel and French-Algeria in Comparative Historical-Sociological Perspective
In the modern era there has been a tendency to prefer and legitimate military solutions to political problems, a phenomenon that can be defined as 'militarism'. Another widespread incidence, particularly since WW2, is that of military takeovers or military coups, a phenomenon defined as 'praetorianism.' Explores a type of praetorian thrust that is inversely linked to militarism, because it is a state-spawned praetorianism. It is the state that brings into being the militaristic nation-in-arms and an army-nation, which is involved in both external wars and domestic social roles; with their decline comes the rise of praetorianism. The theoretical scheme presented is based mainly on a comparison between the case of contemporary Israel and historical France, but uses other historical cases in order to assess whether a military coup is possible in Israel. (Quotes from original text)
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