Jonathan Brunstedt
Biographic Data
| ID | 5713586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Brunstedt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Brunstedt |
| SIGNATURE | BRUNSTEDT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mitchell Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A rhyme of a rhyme
This article explores how Soviet and, later, Russian authorities politicized the anti-fascist memory of World War II to frame and justify military interventions, culminating in Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. It argues that the latter was not simply an attempt to make the invasion “rhyme” with the heroism of the Great Patriotic War; it was, rather, a “rhyme of a rhyme”: a repetition of Cold War–era patterns of deploying anti-fasc…
Public Memory in the USSR and Soviet Myths about World War II
Jonathan Brunstedt, The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Editor's Introduction: This book by Jonathan Brunstedt of Texas A&M University, looking at changing notions of patriotism and national identity in the Soviet Union as reflected in public commemorations of the USSR's role in the Second World War, raises a host of intriguing issues regarding So…
Poleznoe proshloe
The Soviet Myth of World War II
How did a socialist society, ostensibly committed to Marxist ideals of internationalism and global class struggle, reconcile itself to notions of patriotism, homeland, Russian ethnocentrism, and the glorification of war? In this provocative new history, Jonathan Brunstedt pursues this question through the lens of the myth and remembrance of victory in World War II – arguably the central defining event of the Soviet epoch. The book shows that whil…
The Soviet myth of the Great Fatherland War and the limits of inclusionary politics under Brezhnev
Influential scholarship on the Brezhnev era has described the instrumental official support for Russian nationalist themes and pre-socialist imagery in public discourse as a deliberate “politics of inclusion,” designed to co-opt certain nationalist intellectuals and the sympathies of the state's core of ethnic Russians for the purpose of popular mobilization. How this policy related to and interacted with the ubiquitous official commemoration and…
Karen Petrone, The Great War in Russian Memory
Building a Pan-Soviet Past
This article examines the evolution of official Soviet remembrance of the Second World War in the decades that followed 1945. Focusing on elite discourse and Komsomol military-patriotic curricula associated with the state cult of the war, the article argues that Soviet remembrance promoted the war as a fundamentally supranational experience and the basis for a transcendent, pan-Soviet imagined community. The article questions an influential schol…
Building a Pan-Soviet Past
This article examines the evolution of official Soviet remembrance of the Second World War in the decades that followed 1945. Focusing on elite discourse and Komsomol military-patriotic curricula associated with the state cult of the war, the article argues that Soviet remembrance promoted the war as a fundamentally supranational experience and the basis for a transcendent, pan-Soviet imagined community. The article questions an influential schol…
Building a Pan-Soviet Past
This article examines the evolution of official Soviet remembrance of the Second World War in the decades that followed 1945. Focusing on elite discourse and Komsomol military-patriotic curricula associated with the state cult of the war, the article argues that Soviet remembrance promoted the war as a fundamentally supranational experience and the basis for a transcendent, pan-Soviet imagined community. The article questions an influential schol…
The Soviet myth of the Great Fatherland War and the limits of inclusionary politics under Brezhnev
Influential scholarship on the Brezhnev era has described the instrumental official support for Russian nationalist themes and pre-socialist imagery in public discourse as a deliberate “politics of inclusion,” designed to co-opt certain nationalist intellectuals and the sympathies of the state's core of ethnic Russians for the purpose of popular mobilization. How this policy related to and interacted with the ubiquitous official commemoration and…
Karen Petrone, The Great War in Russian Memory
The Soviet Myth of World War II
How did a socialist society, ostensibly committed to Marxist ideals of internationalism and global class struggle, reconcile itself to notions of patriotism, homeland, Russian ethnocentrism, and the glorification of war? In this provocative new history, Jonathan Brunstedt pursues this question through the lens of the myth and remembrance of victory in World War II – arguably the central defining event of the Soviet epoch. The book shows that whil…
Poleznoe proshloe
Public Memory in the USSR and Soviet Myths about World War II
Jonathan Brunstedt, The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Editor's Introduction: This book by Jonathan Brunstedt of Texas A&M University, looking at changing notions of patriotism and national identity in the Soviet Union as reflected in public commemorations of the USSR's role in the Second World War, raises a host of intriguing issues regarding So…
A rhyme of a rhyme
This article explores how Soviet and, later, Russian authorities politicized the anti-fascist memory of World War II to frame and justify military interventions, culminating in Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. It argues that the latter was not simply an attempt to make the invasion “rhyme” with the heroism of the Great Patriotic War; it was, rather, a “rhyme of a rhyme”: a repetition of Cold War–era patterns of deploying anti-fasc…
Political science (5 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Soviet and Russian History (4 works) · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (3 works) · Political economy (3 works)