The Future of the Soviet Past provides effective and nuanced examples of how Russia has reimagined its Soviet history as well as how that past still influences Russia's policymaking.
The Future of the Soviet Past provides effective and nuanced examples of how Russia has reimagined its Soviet history as well as how that past still influences Russia's policymaking.
Anton Weiss-Wendt is Research Professor at the Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies. He is author of the two-volume Documents on the Genocide Convention from the American, British, and Russian Archives; A Rhetorical Crime: Genocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War; The Soviet Union and the Gutting of the UN Genocide Convention; and Murder Without Hatred: Estonians and the Holocaust. He is editor of Racial Science in Hitler's New Europe, 1938-1945 and The Nazi Genocide of the Roma: Reassessment and Commemoration. Nanci Adler is Professor of Memory, History, and Transitional Justice at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies and the University of Amsterdam. She has authored and/or edited, among others, Keeping Faith with the Party: Communist Believers Return from the Gulag, The Gulag Survivor: Beyond the Soviet System, Victims of Soviet Terror: The Story of the Memorial Movement, and Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice: Crimes, Courts, Commissions, and Chronicling. Her current research focuses on transitional justice and the legacy of Communism.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: Revisiting the Future of the Soviet Past and the Memory of Stalinist Repression by Nanci Adler and Anton Weiss-Wendt Part I: The Present Memory of the Past 1. Presentism Politicization of History and the New Role of the Historian in Russia by Ivan Kurilla 2. Secondhand History: Outsourcing Russia's Past to Kremlin's Proxies by Anton Weiss-Wendt 3. The Soviet Past and the 1945 Victory Cult as Civil Religion in Contemporary Russia by Nikita Petrov 4. Russia as a Bulwark against Anti-Semitism and Holocaust Denial: The Second World War according to Moscow by Kiril Feferman Part II: Museums Pop Culture and Other Memory Battlegrounds 5. Keeping the Past in the Past: The Attack on the Perm 36 Gulag Museum and Russian Historical Memory of Soviet Repression by Steven A. Barnes 6. Known and Unknown Soldiers: Remembering Russia's Fallen in the Great Patriotic War by Johanna Dahlin 7. Fighters of the Invisible Front: Re-imaging the Aftermath of the Great Patriotic War in Recent Russian Television Series by Boris Noordenbos 8. War Cinema and the Politics of Memory in Putin 2.0 Culture by Stephen M. Norris Part III: Remembering and Framing the Soviet Past beyond Russia's Borders 9. The 2014 Russian Memory Law in European Context by Nikolay Koposov 10. Tenacious Pasts: Geopolitics and the Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Issues by George Soroka 11. The 1968 Invasion of Czechoslovakia: Return to the Soviet Interpretation by stepán CernouSek Index
Acknowledgments Introduction: Revisiting the Future of the Soviet Past and the Memory of Stalinist Repression by Nanci Adler and Anton Weiss-Wendt Part I: The Present Memory of the Past 1. Presentism Politicization of History and the New Role of the Historian in Russia by Ivan Kurilla 2. Secondhand History: Outsourcing Russia's Past to Kremlin's Proxies by Anton Weiss-Wendt 3. The Soviet Past and the 1945 Victory Cult as Civil Religion in Contemporary Russia by Nikita Petrov 4. Russia as a Bulwark against Anti-Semitism and Holocaust Denial: The Second World War according to Moscow by Kiril Feferman Part II: Museums Pop Culture and Other Memory Battlegrounds 5. Keeping the Past in the Past: The Attack on the Perm 36 Gulag Museum and Russian Historical Memory of Soviet Repression by Steven A. Barnes 6. Known and Unknown Soldiers: Remembering Russia's Fallen in the Great Patriotic War by Johanna Dahlin 7. Fighters of the Invisible Front: Re-imaging the Aftermath of the Great Patriotic War in Recent Russian Television Series by Boris Noordenbos 8. War Cinema and the Politics of Memory in Putin 2.0 Culture by Stephen M. Norris Part III: Remembering and Framing the Soviet Past beyond Russia's Borders 9. The 2014 Russian Memory Law in European Context by Nikolay Koposov 10. Tenacious Pasts: Geopolitics and the Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Issues by George Soroka 11. The 1968 Invasion of Czechoslovakia: Return to the Soviet Interpretation by stepán CernouSek Index
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