War Monuments, Public Patriotism, and Bereavement in Russia, 19052015

This study is a broad cultural history of Russian war monuments in the twentieth century. It provides a unique analysis of the importance of war in Russian and Soviet cultural history and contributes to scholarship on the historical context of contemporary Russian politics and culture.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Honors and Insults: War Monuments in Late Imperial Russia, 1905-1914
Chapter 2 Victims and Heroes: The Rise and Fall of Patriotic Memorials, 1914-1922
Chapter 3 The Absence of Presence: War Monuments and Bolshevik Memorial Culture, 1922-1955
Chapter 4 Hope along the Marne: War Memorials in Russia Abroad, 1922-1941
Chapter 5 Soviet War Memorials: People, State, and the Great Patriotic War, 1955-1985
Chapter 6 The Return of the Public: Civic Reconciliation, Politics, and War Monuments, 1986-2015

About the author

By Aaron J. Cohen

Summary

This study is a broad cultural history of Russian war monuments in the twentieth century. It provides a unique analysis of the importance of war in Russian and Soviet cultural history and contributes to scholarship on the historical context of contemporary Russian politics and culture.

Product details

• Authors: Aaron J. Cohen, Cohen Aaron J.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781498577496
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-7749-6
• No. of pages: 270
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Russia, HISTORY / World, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, History of other geographical groupings and regions, History of other lands, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era