World War II Memory and Contested Commemorations in Europe and Russia

Instrumentalization of the wartime past for political gain is the subject of this study of eleven World War II commemorations.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction to the Politicization of World War II Memory: The Actors and Strategies of Memory Wars in Europe and Russia


• 2: Right-wing Challenges to Official Memory in Western Europe


• 3: Restoration of Fallen Soldiers to the Pantheon of National Heroes: Commemorations in Eastern Europe


• 4: August 23, 1939: From a Non-Event to a Russian Weapon against Poland (and the West)


• 5: Commemoration of Victory Day: The Many Meanings of the War's End


• 6: The Presents of the Wartime Past

About the author

Jennifer Yoder is the Robert E. Diamond Professor of Government and Global Studies at Colby College, where she has taught since 1996. She is the author of From East Germans to Germans? The New Post-Communist Elite and Crafting Democracy: Regional Politics in Post-Communist Europe and the co-author of the forthcoming Elections: A Very Short Introduction, with L. Sandy Maisel.
Her research examines political culture and identity in post-communist societies, the integration of eastern and western Germany as well as eastern and western Europe, and nationalist-populist political parties and movements in Europe.

Summary

Instrumentalization of the wartime past for political gain is the subject of this study of eleven World War II commemorations.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer A. Yoder, Jennifer A. (Robert E. Diamond Professor of Yoder, Yoder Jennifer A.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.12.2023
• EAN: 9780198894162
• ISBN: 978-0-19-889416-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; Europe, Russia, HISTORY / Military / General, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Politics & government, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Politics and government, Modern warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / Eastern Front, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet