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The Great Patriotic War 1941–45
1996When Nazi Germany turned on the Soviet Union in June 1941 and launched what was, for Stalin, a surprise invasion, religious leaders immediately leapt to the defence of the Soviet ‘fatherland’, issuing patriotic appeals to the people. As the German forces moved deeper and deeper into Soviet territory and the very existence of the Soviet Union seemed ...
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Patriotism or Nationalism? Faure and the Great War
Journal of the American Musicological Society, 1999Even though Gabriel Fauré's contemporaries championed his music as quintessentially French, Fauré distanced himself from policies of national exclusion in art, and his own construction of French musical style was cosmopolitan. This essay summarizes Fauré's political choices during the Great War, explains his motives, and indicates how some of his ...
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Women in the Great Patriotic War
1999Despite the non-aggression pact which had been signed by the two countries in August 1939, Germany invaded Russia on 22 June 1941. To stimulate the population’s loyalty and its willingness to sacrifice itself for the country, the image of the Soviet woman took on a distinctly iconic form.
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Sport during the Great Patriotic War
Vestnik RFFI. Gumanitarnye i obŝestvennye naukiBased on the new archival sources, the paper analyses key aspects of sports history during the war: the reshaping of physical culture and athletic activities in the summer and autumn of 1941; sport practices in the rear areas amidst the war; survival strategies and fitness maintenance of athletes; the processes of restoration of high-performance team ...
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The Great Patriotic War on Screen
This chapter discusses the most popular type of Soviet-made feature to screen during 1945–50: war films. War films were shaped by two priorities: first, the need to redefine the war narrative through a more stringently Soviet lens. The task for the film industry after the war was to relocate it to the firm grounding of Stalinist ideology.openaire +1 more source
The Great Patriotic War, 1941–1945
2015Abstract After a long period of scholarly neglect, owing partly to political reasons, the Second World War is now being studied as an integral part of the history of the Soviet Union. This chapter considers the war’s far reaching effects on state and society, taking a multi-faceted, comparative view.
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Some Features of the Activity of the Chuvashpotrebsoyuz During the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945
Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 2022Леонид Таймасов +2 more
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Russian Journalists and the ‘Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union’
Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 2022Rashad Mammadov
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Postcards of the Great Patriotic War
Berkov Readings. Book Culture in the Context of International Contacts: for the 80th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) materials of the 8th International Scientific ConferenceThe article focuses on the history of postal communication during the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945), particularly the measures undertaken by the People's Commissariat for Communications of the USSR from the outset of the war to supply soldiers and civilians with postcards.
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