The Shattered Self of Komsomol Civil War Memoirs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4210893 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sean Guillory (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 546-565 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5612/slavicreview.71.3.0546 |
| OpenAlex | W2487628867 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 25 |
The Russian civil war was a fratricidal climax of seven years of war and revolution that fractured Russian society. Its traumatic effects on postrevolutionary life are beyond measure. In this article Sean Guillory examines memoirs of Komsomol civil war veterans to illuminate the ways the war shaped their sense of self. Guillory argues that veterans' memoirs reveal a shattering of the self where their efforts to narrate their experience as agents of war was overshadowed by their transformation on the batdefield into instinctual beings, imprisoned by emotions, senses, nerves, and muscles. Guillory engages the scholarship on the Soviet self and subjectivity by calling attention to the ways trauma produces a "darker side" of the self, and in particular, how the body serves as a long-term depository for experiences of loss, disorientation, and deprivation
Art history · Memoir · Political science · Scholarship · Self · Spanish Civil War · Subjectivity · Vietnam War · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Soviet and Russian History · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
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No man's land
The soldiers' tale
War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century
Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning
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Fallen Soldiers
Men without women
Revolution on My Mind
The Collective and the Individual in Russia
Violence and Subjectivity
The making of the Soviet system
Experiencing Russia's Civil War
The Great War and Modern Memory
NEP Be Damned! Young Militants in the 1920s and the Culture of Civil War
Embodied Memory, Transcendence, and Telling
Models of Selfhood and Subjectivity
On Soviet Subjects and the Scholars Who Make Them
| Citations per year | 0.36 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2023 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |