War, Memory, and Punishment in Russia: Two Heldt Prize Winners

Karen Petrone's book, by addressing the construction of memories and the presentation of the Great War in the east, chiefly Russia and then the Soviet Union, fills a gap in the history of World War I. Most historiographical attention has been paid to Western reactions to World War I; the consen...

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Published in:Aspasia (New York, N.Y.) N.Y.), 2015-01, Vol.9 (1), p.157-161
Main Author: Ruthchild, Rochelle Goldberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Awards
Citizenship
Civil war
Ethnicity
Females
Feminism
Gender
Geography
Homophobia
Imagination
Jewish people
Memory
Militarism
Prisons
Punishment
Reinforcement
Religion
Russia
Russian language
Sex
Stereotypes
War
Womens studies
World War I
World War II
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Summary:Karen Petrone's book, by addressing the construction of memories and the presentation of the Great War in the east, chiefly Russia and then the Soviet Union, fills a gap in the history of World War I. Most historiographical attention has been paid to Western reactions to World War I; the consensus is that World War II, the Great Patriotic War, looms much larger in the Russian imagination. The particular Russian experience of war, revolution, and civil war, the attempts to reshape history to emphasize the Bolshevik break with the past, anti-religious campaigns against memorializing the dead, economic constraints, anti-militarism, Stalin's power struggle with Trotsky, the purges, and ethnic stereotypes, especially in relation to Jews, all affected the portrayal of the Great War.
ISSN:1933-2882
1933-2890
DOI:10.3167/asp.2015.090111