The Politics Of War Commemoration In The Uk And Russia
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| Author | : N. Danilova |
| Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2014-01-14 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781349679393 |
This book analyses contemporary war commemoration in Britain and Russia. Focusing on the political aspects of remembrance, it explores the instrumentalisation of memory for managing civil-military relations and garnering public support for conflicts. It explains the nexus between remembrance, militarisation and nationalism in modern societies.
| Author | : Nataliya Danilova |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 245 |
| Release | : 2016-01-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1137395710 |
This book analyses contemporary war commemoration in Britain and Russia. Focusing on the political aspects of remembrance, it explores the instrumentalisation of memory for managing civil-military relations and garnering public support for conflicts. It explains the nexus between remembrance, militarisation and nationalism in modern societies.
| Author | : Nataliya Danilova |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2016-01-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1137395710 |
This book analyses contemporary war commemoration in Britain and Russia. Focusing on the political aspects of remembrance, it explores the instrumentalisation of memory for managing civil-military relations and garnering public support for conflicts. It explains the nexus between remembrance, militarisation and nationalism in modern societies.
| Author | : David L. Hoffmann |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 2021-08-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1000430294 |
This volume showcases important new research on World War II memory, both in the Soviet Union and in Russia today. Through an examination of war remembrance in its various forms—official histories, school textbooks, museums, monuments, literature, films, and Victory Day parades—chapters illustrate how the heroic narrative of the war was established in Soviet times and how it continues to shape war memorialization under Putin. This war narrative resonates with the Russian population due to decades of Soviet commemoration, which continued virtually uninterrupted into the post-Soviet period. Major themes of the volume include the use of World War II memory for political legitimation and patriotic mobilization; the striking continuities between Soviet and post-Soviet commemorative practices; the place of Holocaust memorialization in contemporary Russia; Putin’s invocation of the war to bolster national pride and international prestige; and the relationship between individual memory and collective remembrance. Authored by an international group of distinguished specialists, this collection is ideal for scholars of Russia across a range of disciplines, including history, political science, sociology, and cultural studies.
| Author | : Nataliya Danilova |
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| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2012 |
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In many countries governments, the military and the public are annually engaged in the commemoration of fallen soldiers of the World Wars and of recent conflicts. This study compares changes in the commemoration of fallen soldiers in a democratic and an authoritarian society (the UK and Russia). It considers this process in terms of a social contract between the military and society, and discusses its broader political and societal implications. The research is focused on the period from the late 1980s onwards. This time-frame is chosen to investigate contemporary changes in national styles of commemoration. Throughout the thesis, the analysis uncovers general trends in this process and explores in detail the commemoration of British soldiers who died in the Falklands War (1982), Gulf War (1990- 1991), Iraq (2003-2009) and Afghanistan (2001-present) and the commemoration of Russian soldiers killed in the Soviet Afghan War (1979-1989) and in the First and Second campaigns in Chechnya (1994- 1996, 1999-2009). In both cases, the thesis examines three sites of memory that mediate discourses and practices of the commemoration (i.e. media coverage of military campaigns, new war memorials, and national ceremonies of remembrance). The original contribution of the thesis lies in two areas: the conceptualisation of contemporary commemoration from the perspective of civil-military relations, and a systematic empirical comparison of this process in two countries. The findings of this research reveal a shift across both societies from war- to a service-orientated commemoration which comes into being with the increasing complexity and controversy of modem warfare. Also, the analysis demonstrates that the commemoration of fallen soldiers in both countries serves as an instrument of popularising national values and mobilising public support for the armed forces, and military operations. In Britain, this result is achieved through the discourse of a 'support for heroes' who fought in Afghanistan. In Russia, the public is mobilised through a broad call to be proud of victory in the Second World War and to give unconditional support for the government political course.
| Author | : Julie Fedor |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 503 |
| Release | : 2016-01-05 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3838268067 |
This double special issue investigates the experiences of Soviet Afghan veterans and the ongoing impact of the Soviet-Afghan war (1979-89); and the new and reconstituted narratives of martyrdom that have been emerging in connection with 20th-century history and memory in the post-socialist world.The JOURNAL OF SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY (JSPPS) is a new bi-annual companion journal to the Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (SPPS) book series (founded 2004 and edited by Andreas Umland, Dr. phil., PhD).Guest editors: Felix Ackermann (European Humanities University); Michael Galbas (Konstanz University); Uilleam Blacker (UCL)
| Author | : Katalin Miklóssy |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2021-12-13 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1000516768 |
This book discusses the diverse practices and discourses of memory politics in Russia and Eastern Europe. It argues that currently prevailing conservativism has a long tradition, which continued even in Communist times, and is different to conservatism in the West, which can accommodate other viewpoints within liberal democratic systems. It considers how important history is for conservatism, and how history is reconstituted according to changing circumstances. It goes on to examine in detail values which are key to conservatism, such as patriotism, Christianity and religious life, and the traditional model of the family, the importance of the sovereign national state within globalization, and the emphasis on a strong paternal state, featuring hierarchy, authority and political continuity. The book concludes by analysing how far states in the region are experiencing a common trend and whether different countries’ conservative narratives are reinforcing each other or are colliding.
| Author | : Guido Hausmann |
| Publisher | : V&R Unipress |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2021-12-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3847013831 |
The Ukrainian Euromaidan in 2013–14 and the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war in the Eastern part of the country have posed new questions to historians. The volume investigates the relevance of the cults of the fallen soldiers to Ukraine's national history and state. It places the dead of the Euromaidan and the forms and functions of the emerging new cult of the dead in the context of older cults from pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet times from various Ukrainian regions until the end of the presidency of Petro Poroshenko in 2019. The contributions emphasize the importance of the grassroot level, of local and regional actors or memory entrepreneurs, myths of state origin and national defense demanding unity, and the dynamics of commemorative practices in the last thirty years in relation to pluralist and fragmented processes of nationand state-building. They contribute to new conceptualizations of the political cult of the dead.
| Author | : Daqing Yang |
| Publisher | : Lexington Books |
| Total Pages | : 195 |
| Release | : 2018-04-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1498567703 |
Why do some governments and societies attach great significance to a particular anniversary year whereas others seem less inclined to do so? What motivates the orchestration of elaborate commemorative activities in some countries? What are they supposed to accomplish, for both domestic and international audience? In what ways do commemorations in Asia Pacific fit into the global memory culture of war commemoration? In what ways are these commemorations intertwined with current international politics? This book presents the first large-scale analysis of how countries in the Asia Pacific and beyond commemorated the seventieth anniversaries of the end of World War II. Consisting of in-depth case studies of China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Singapore, the Philippines, United States, Russia, and Germany, this unique collective effort demonstrates how memories of the past as reflected in public commemorations and contemporary politics—both internal and international—profoundly affect each other.
| Author | : Guy Hinton |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2021-09-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3030785939 |
This book examines a diverse set of civic war memorials in North East England commemorating three clusters of conflicts: the Crimean War and Indian Rebellion in the 1850s; the ‘small wars’ of the 1880s; and the Boer War from 1899 to 1902. Encompassing a protracted timeframe and embracing disparate social, political and cultural contexts, it analyses how and why war memorials and commemorative practices changed during this key period of social transition and imperial expansion. In assessing the motivations of the memorial organisers and the narratives they sought to convey, the author argues that developments in war commemoration were primarily influenced by – and reflected – broader socio-economic and political transformations occurring in nineteenth-century and early-twentieth century Britain.
