Gender, Memory, and National Myths

In Russia, the memory of the Second World War has been at once deeply personal and profoundly political. Largely erased from official memory until Stalin's death, the story of the war became, in the 1960s, a key means of legitimizing the Soviet state. The mythic “20 million”—more recent estimates are closer to 30 million war dead—became the heart of a lasting and state-sanctioned collective memory of shared suffering, patriotism, and redemption. As historian Nina Tumarkin has argued, the official “cult” of the war began to crumble in the mid-1980s, and what she calls “raw human memory,” personal stories untainted by the myth created from above, began to emerge. Tumarkin contends that the “winds of glasnost' and perestroika ” effectively “ravaged” both the state-sanctioned “myth” and the “shared memory” of the Great Patriotic War. Personal tragedies began to replace the official tale of national triumph

Ancient history · Collective memory · Cult · Mythology · Patriotism · Political science · Politics · Politics of memory · Siege · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · State (computer science · World War II · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Classics · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration

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• Sofia Was Bombed? Bulgaria's Forgotten War with the Allies

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• The Living and the Dead

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• Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning

  Open Access•Jay Winter•Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning•1998

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• The rites of rulers

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• The 900 Days

  William Henry Chamberlin, Harrison E Salisbury•The Russian Review•1970

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• Collective Memory and Cultural History

  Alon Confino•The American Historical Review•1997

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• Soviet War Memorials

  Michael Ignatieff•History Workshop Journal•1984

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