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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
wiley   +1 more source

Babyn Yar. Holocaust — Taboo Topics of Soviet Historiography [PDF]

, 2022
The Holocaust tragedy and the objective coverage of the events in Nazi-occupied Kyiv in 1941–1943 from Stalin’s time to the final stage of perestroika were excluded from the Soviet historical narrative.
Рамазанов, Шаміль, Левітас, Фелікс Львович   +1 more
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The ‘State Patriotic Turn’: State Ideology and History According to the Russian Military Historical Society, 2022–2024

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Russian Military Historical Society (RMHS) was founded in 2012 on President Vladimir Putin's orders. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the society's members have not only published propaganda to support the ‘special military operation’ but have discussed the need for a proper ‘state ideology’.
Kati Parppei
wiley   +1 more source

Fear of the Past

, 2012
This chapter examines the representation of Soviet terror in post-Soviet culture. It proposes a new concept, that of memory-dread, to analyze how Russians perceive the Soviet terror.
Alexander Etkind
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Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reads The Lapid Guide to Europe, a bestselling Hebrew‐language travel guide published from the 1970s to the 1990s, as a form of bourgeois nationalism enacted through everyday practices of behaviour. Written by journalist and Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid, the guide operated as civic pedagogy, instructing Israeli travellers in ...
Daniel Mahla
wiley   +1 more source

Holocaust Narrative(s) in Soviet Lithuania: The Case of the Ninth Fort Museum in Kaunas

, 2022
Reikšminiai žodžiai: Holokaustas Lietuvoje; Sovietmetis; Žydų raudonieji partizanai; Kauno IX forto muziejus. Keywords: Holocaust in Lithuania; Soviet period; Red Jewish partizans; Kaunas IX-th Fort museumThe narratives presented in the Ninth Fort Museum
Malinauskaitė, Gintarė
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Symbols and Symbolic Structures in Novels About Wartime Children: “The Golden Cloud Stayed Over” by A. Pristavkin and “The Book Thief” by M. Zusak

Этническая культура
The article provides a comparative analysis of symbols and symbolic structures in the novels “The Book Thief” by the Australian writer M. Zusak and “The Golden Cloud” by the Soviet author A. Pristavkin.
Olesia A. Lazutkina, Daria A. Mashukova
doaj   +1 more source

A New Concept of “Kim Jong Un Partizan” Discourse and Authoritarian Durability in North Korea

Pacific Focus, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does the North Korean regime secure elite loyalty without institutional transparency or material redistribution? While existing studies have examined the use of Partizan narratives under Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, this paper argues that Kim Jong Un introduces a significant discursive shift: the invention of “Kim Jong Un Partizans.” This ...
Sohee Hwang
wiley   +1 more source

The Experiences of Female Ethnic Prisoners in Soviet Camps between Collective Memory and Historiographical Debate

, 2022
The article addresses the problems of studying the history of totalitarianism in the USSR in the context of collective memory and working with oral sources.
Iashchenko Iuliia
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