Soviet War Memorials
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 4494580 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Michael Ignatieff (0009-0009-7302-3549, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 1984 |
| Volumen | 17 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 157-163 |
| Fecha de publicación | 1984-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Editorial | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/17.1.157 |
| OpenAlex | W2026398354 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 6 |
As you cross the Dnieper river bridge into Kiev, the first thing you see looming up on the tree-lined bluffs opposite is a gigantic silver statue, a frowning Amazon in metal robes brandishing a huge sword in one hand and a shield in the other. She is staggeringly large at least the size of the Statue of Liberty and since she is made of glistening aluminium, it is as if she were perspiring with martial effort. She is a monument to the Great Patriotic War. Hundreds of thousands of Germans and Russians died on the bluffs at her feet during the battles for the city between 1941 and 1943. A shroud of landscaping and grass has been laid over the scene of horror which took place around her: the site manages both to consecrate and obliterate the deaths which occurred there. The identity of the giant figure guarding the approaches to the city, staring in the direction of the German invaders' advance in 1941 should be obvious: Mother Russia. Yet we are in the Ukraine, which has ancient reasons for resenting the aggrandizing symbols of Russian national identity. Already her symbolic meaning is ambiguous: if she is the embodiment of a myth of national identity as she is plainly intended to be she is standing on soil where that unity has always been contentious. Instead of rallying to the Soviet cause either in 1918 or in 1941, many Ukrainians chose to welcome the invader whose path this statue so resolutely bars. In all her ambiguities and this is only the first of them the statue on the
Ancient history · Political science · History · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
| Obras citantes distintas | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 0,23 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2000 - 2022 (23) |
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 6 |