The Memory of the Second World War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

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Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: the politics of commemoration in the Soviet Union and contemporary Russia
Part I Soviet remembrance of the war
	1 Wartime mobilizational strategies and the origins of Soviet war memory
	2 Situating Stalin in the history of the Second World War
	3 Victory Day before the cult: war commemoration in the USSR, 1945–1965
	4 Teaching and remembering the Great Patriotic War in Soviet schools
	5 Representations of gender in Soviet war memorials
Part II Soviet and post-Soviet war memory
	6 Veterans remember the war in Soviet and post-Soviet fiction
	7 Lend-Lease in war and Russian memory
	8 Politicizing war memorialization in Soviet and post-Soviet Sevastopol
	9 World War II memories and local media in the Russian North: Velikii Novgorod and Murmansk
	10 Parades in Russian memory culture
Part III Representations of the war in the Putin era
	11 Performing memory and its limits: Vladimir Putin and the celebration of World War II in Russia
	12 Holocaust discourse in Putin’s Russia as a foreign policy tool
	13 The war film and memory politics in Putin’s Russia
	14 Jews, gender, and just wars: remembering and rewriting the Great Patriotic War in 2015 war films
	15 The 21st-century memory of the Great Patriotic War in the “Russia – My History” Museum
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