Myth and remembrance - Russia and the year 1812
Author: Manfred Sapper
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9783830531128
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Author: Manfred Sapper
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9783830531128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Andrew M. Nedd
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 3031603354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gregory Carleton
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2017-04-24
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 067497848X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo nation is a stranger to war, but for Russians war is a central part of who they are. Their “motherland” has been the battlefield where some of the largest armies have clashed, the most savage battles have been fought, the highest death tolls paid. Having prevailed over Mongol hordes and vanquished Napoleon and Hitler, many Russians believe no other nation has sacrificed so much for the world. In Russia: The Story of War Gregory Carleton explores how this belief has produced a myth of exceptionalism that pervades Russian culture and politics and has helped forge a national identity rooted in war. While outsiders view Russia as an aggressor, Russians themselves see a country surrounded by enemies, poised in a permanent defensive crouch as it fights one invader after another. Time and again, history has called upon Russia to play the savior—of Europe, of Christianity, of civilization itself—and its victories, especially over the Nazis in World War II, have come at immense cost. In this telling, even defeats lose their sting. Isolation becomes a virtuous destiny and the whole of its bloody history a point of pride. War is the unifying thread of Russia’s national epic, one that transcends its wrenching ideological transformations from the archconservative empire to the radical-totalitarian Soviet Union to the resurgent nationalism of the country today. As Putin’s Russia asserts itself in ever bolder ways, knowing how the story of its war-torn past shapes the present is essential to understanding its self-image and worldview.
Author: Jonathan Brunstedt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-07-15
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 1108584888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a bold new interpretation of the Soviet myth of World War II from its Stalinist origins to its emergence as arguably the supreme myth of state under Brezhnev. Jonathan Brunstedt offers a timely historical investigation into the roots of the revival of the war's memory in Russia today.
Author: Janet M. Hartley
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-09-15
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1137528001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRussia played a fundamental role in the outcome of Napoleonic Wars; the wars also had an impact on almost every area of Russian life. Russia and the Napoleonic Wars brings together significant and new research from Russian and non-Russian historians and their work demonstrates the importance of this period both for Russia and for all of Europe.
Author: Serhii Plokhy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-07-26
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 1139536737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the years following the Napoleonic Wars, a mysterious manuscript began to circulate among the dissatisfied noble elite of the Russian Empire. Entitled The History of the Rus', it became one of the most influential historical texts of the modern era. Attributed to an eighteenth-century Orthodox archbishop, it described the heroic struggles of the Ukrainian Cossacks. Alexander Pushkin read the book as a manifestation of Russian national spirit, but Taras Shevchenko interpreted it as a quest for Ukrainian national liberation, and it would inspire thousands of Ukrainians to fight for the freedom of their homeland. Serhii Plokhy tells the fascinating story of the text's discovery and dissemination, unravelling the mystery of its authorship and tracing its subsequent impact on Russian and Ukrainian historical and literary imagination. In so doing he brilliantly illuminates the relationship between history, myth, empire and nationhood from Napoleonic times to the fall of the Soviet Union.
Author: Veljko Vujačić
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-03-26
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1107074088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the role of Russian and Serbian nationalism in dissolution of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in 1991.
Author: Kathleen E. Smith
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-05-31
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1501717960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter the collapse of Communist rule in 1991, those loyal to the old regime tried to salvage their political dreams by rejecting some aspects of their history and embracing others. Yeltsin and the democrats, although initially hesitant to rely on the patriotic mythmaking they associated with Communist propaganda, also turned to the national past in times of crisis, realizing they needed not only to create new institutions, but also to encourage popular support for them.Kathleen E. Smith examines the use of collective memories in Russian politics during the Yeltsin years, surveying the various issues that became battlegrounds for contending notions of what it means to be Russian. Both the new establishment and its opponents have struggled to shape versions of past events into symbolic political capital. What parts of the Communist past, Smith asks, have proved useful for interpreting political options? Which versions of their history have Russians chosen to cling to, and which Soviet memories have they deliberately tried to forget? What symbols do they hold up as truly Russian? Which will help define the attitudes shaping Russian policy for decades to come?Smith illustrates the potency of memory debates across a broad range of fields—law, politics, art, and architecture. Her case studies include the changing interpretations of the attempted coups of 1991 and 1993, the recasting of the holiday calendar, the controversy over the national anthem, the status of "trophy art" brought to Russia at the end of World War II, and the partisan use of historical symbols in elections.
Author: Ludmila Isurin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-06-06
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1107175852
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIsurin presents a case study of Russian collective memory as it is constructed by producers and consumed by people.
Author: George C. Daughan
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
Published: 2011-10-04
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13: 0465020461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTells the story of how America's war fleet, only twenty ships strong, was able to defeat the world's greatest imperial power through a combination of nautical deftness and sheer bravado to win the War of 1812.