The Great War in Russian Memory

The Great War in Russian Memory
Author: Karen Petrone
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2011-07-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253001447

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.

Memory, Narrative and the Great War

Memory, Narrative and the Great War
Author: David Taylor
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2013-04-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1781387125

This is a detailed study of an important figure whose differing perceptions of the Great War throw valuable light on the way in which war is remembered and narrated.

Remembering War

Remembering War
Author: J. M. Winter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780300110685

This is a masterful volume on remembrance and war in the twentieth century. Jay Winter locates the fascination with the subject of memory within a long-term trajectory that focuses on the Great War. Images, languages, and practices that appeared during and after the two world wars focused on the need to acknowledge the victims of war and shaped the ways in which future conflicts were imagined and remembered. At the core of the “memory boom” is an array of collective meditations on war and the victims of war, Winter says. The book begins by tracing the origins of contemporary interest in memory, then describes practices of remembrance that have linked history and memory, particularly in the first half of the twentieth century. The author also considers “theaters of memory”—film, television, museums, and war crimes trials in which the past is seen through public representations of memories. The book concludes with reflections on the significance of these practices for the cultural history of the twentieth century as a whole.

Nation, Memory and Great War Commemoration

Nation, Memory and Great War Commemoration
Author: Shanti Sumartojo
Publisher: Cultural Memories
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Collective memory
ISBN: 9783034309370

The Great War continues to play a prominent role in contemporary consciousness. With commemorative activities involving seventy-two countries, its centenary is a titanic undertaking: not only 'the centenary to end all centenaries' but the first truly global period of remembrance. In this innovative volume, the authors examine First World War commemoration in an international, multidisciplinary and comparative context. The contributions draw on history, politics, geography, cultural studies and sociology to interrogate the continuities and tensions that have shaped national commemoration and the social and political forces that condition this unique international event. New studies of Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific address the relationship between increasingly fractured grand narratives of history and the renewed role of the state in mediating between individual and collective memories. Released to coincide with the beginning of the 2014-2018 centenary period, this collection illuminates the fluid and often contested relationships amongst nation, history and memory in Great War commemoration.

Legend, Memory, and the Great War in the Air

Legend, Memory, and the Great War in the Air
Author: Dominick Pisano
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780295972169

This treatise provides incisive discussions on the protection of the expression of ideas. The forms portion helps you navigate through US Copyright Office practice, and provides examples of state-of-the-art agreements and outstanding litigation forms. These model litigation and transactional documents represent real-life agreements and court filings, as well as bare bones forms easily adapted to the needs of your clients. Two volumes of primary source materials contain the text of the US Copyright Act and the regulations adopted thereunder, and the text of relevant international treaties, including the Berne Convention and the WIPO Copyright Treaties.

Scotland and the First World War

Scotland and the First World War
Author: Gill Plain
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2016-11-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1611487773

What did war look like in the cultural imagination of 1914? Why did men in Scotland sign up to fight in unprecedented numbers? What were the martial myths shaping Scottish identity from the aftermath of Bannockburn to the close of the nineteenth century, and what did the Scottish soldiers of the First World War think they were fighting for? Scotland and the First World War: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Bannockburn is a collection of new interdisciplinary essays interrogating the trans-historical myths of nation, belonging and martial identity that shaped Scotland’s encounter with the First World War. In a series of thematically linked essays, experts from the fields of literature, history and cultural studies examine how Scotland remembers war, and how remembering war has shaped Scotland.

Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning

Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning
Author: Jay Winter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781306857734

Jay Winter's powerful 1998 study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in which communities endeavoured to find collective solace after 1918. Taking issue with the prevailing 'modernist' interpretation of the European reaction to the appalling events of 1914 18, Dr Winter instead argues that what characterised that reaction was, rather, the attempt to interpret the Great War within traditional frames of reference. Tensions arose inevitably. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning is a profound and moving book of seminal importance for the attempt to understand the course of European history during the first half of the twentieth century."

The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present

The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present
Author: Christoph Cornelissen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2022-11-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1800737270

From the Treaty of Versailles to the 2018 centenary and beyond, the history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, studied and contested, producing a rich historiography shaped by the social and cultural circumstances of its creation. Writing the Great War provides a groundbreaking survey of this vast body of work, assembling contributions on a variety of national and regional historiographies from some of the most prominent scholars in the field. By analyzing perceptions of the war in contexts ranging from Nazi Germany to India’s struggle for independence, this is an illuminating collective study of the complex interplay of memory and history.

Soldier Heroes

Soldier Heroes
Author: Graham Dawson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1135089515

Soldier Heroes explores the imagining of masculinities within adventure stories. Drawing on literary theory, cultural materialism and Kleinian psychoanalysis, it analyses modern British adventure heroes as historical forms of masculinity originating in the era of nineteenth-century popular imperialism, traces their subsequent transformations and examines the way these identities are internalized and lived by men and boys.

My Dear I Wanted to Tell You

My Dear I Wanted to Tell You
Author: Louisa Young
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2011-03-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0007361459

A letter, two lovers, a terrible lie. In war, truth is only the first casualty. ‘Inspires the kind of devotion among its readers not seen since David Nicholls’ One Day’ The Times