schoolgirls gathered around her and listened quietly to her explanations. The group stood under the arches of a hall devoted to the events of the “Great Patriotic War.” Listening to the guide, the girls might have looked up at the heavy weapons and seen the
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Memory Makers of the Great Patriotic War
Curator Agency and Visitor Participation in Soviet War Museums during Stalinism
Anne E. Hasselmann
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Mar 2021
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- 13–32 (20 total)
The Return of Mother Russia
Representations of Women in Soviet Wartime Cinema
Elena Baraban
This article examines the process of symbolisation in the images of women in Soviet cinema. It argues that during the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945) many female characters served as symbolic representations of the country itself, of Mother Russia, determined to defeat the enemy and ready to endure hardships and to cope with deprivation and grief. The start of the resistance against Nazi Germany called for many more depictions of women than was typical in the thoroughly masculinised culture of the 1930s. At the same time, wartime images of women were quite abstract: they recalled posters and often relied on a symbolically charged mise-en-scène.
“The Community is Everything, The Individual is Nothing”
The Second World War in Russian History Education
Dagmara Moskwa
The Second World War, often referred to in Russia as the Great Patriotic War, is considered the most important event of twentieth-century Russian history and has had a strong influence on contemporary Russian identity. The myth of the Great
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Mar 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 82–106 (25 total)
Islamic Biopolitics during Pandemics in Russia
Intertextuality of Religious, Medical and Political Discourses
Sofya A. Ragozina
the victory in the Great Patriotic War, the celebration of which occupies a special place in the modern historical policy of the Russian state. How are COVID-19, Islam and Victory Day related? References to the Victory Day theme are some of the most
Introduction
Remembering the Second World War in Post-Soviet Educational Media
Barbara Christophe
argument in the impressive number of recent studies that have explored the dynamics of remembering the Second World War, usually referred to as the Great Patriotic War in post-Soviet Russia. I will then present an overview of the contributions to this
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Mar 2021
- Article Type:
- Introduction
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- 1–12 (12 total)
Narrating the Second World War
History Textbooks and Nation Building in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine
Lina Klymenko
a new chapter entitled “The Great Patriotic War.” The textbook defines this event as a war of the Soviet people, and as the most important part of the Second World War for all the people on earth. 42 By highlighting the heroism of the Red Army
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Sep 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 36–57 (22 total)
The Ukrainian divide
The power of historical narratives, imagined communities, and collective memories
Alina Penkala, Ilse Derluyn, and Ine Lietaert
creating “imagined communities”: in the Eastern part of Ukraine—“Little Russians” and in the Western part—“Ruthenians.” In the last section, conflicting collective memories on the Great Patriotic War and the Ukrainian war of liberation are presented
In Regions and Cohesion
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- 01 Dec 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 125–139 (15 total)
Visuals in History Textbooks
War Memorials in Soviet and Post-Soviet School Education from 1945 to 2021
Mischa Gabowitsch
devoted to the Second World War and/or what is known in Soviet and post-Soviet usage as the Great Patriotic War, including the number of pictures (if any) included in the relevant chapter as well as the share of pictures that represent war memorials
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Mar 2023
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 99–128 (30 total)
“Russia My History”
A Hi-Tech Version of an Old History Textbook
Olga Konkka
particularly resistant to innovation, let alone postmodernism, at least when it comes to its museal representation. Owing to multiple factors that have influenced Soviet and post-Soviet memory politics and practices, the Great Patriotic War is usually presented
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Mar 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 33–57 (25 total)
Virgin Oil Lands Conquered?
The Project of Historical Memory on the Territory of Yugra
Ksenia Barabanova
heterogeneous and represents more of a patchwork quilt with common motifs and local narratives. Siberia is included in the nationwide memory project of the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 (part of World War II), but the memory of conquering nature and exile has