World War II

New Book: Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War: Reds Versus Whites

(Bloomsbury Academic) In examining the re-emergence of Russia’s White Movement, Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War gets to the heart of the rich 20th-century memory debates going on in…

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Nationalizing Russian (War) Memory Since 2014

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) After two decades of (official) American neglect of Russian/Soviet sufferings during World War II, President John Kennedy, in his 1963 address at American University, recollected that…

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History Matters

(TOL) Amid the pandemic, Russia, China, and others find time to debate the timing of the beginning and end of World War II and other details of years long past. The…

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#NotOnlyMay9th: “Volunteers of Victory” and the Global Outreach of Russian World War II Commemorations

July 2, 2019

For several years, Russia’s World War II remembrance policy has been widely discussed and challenged by some of the neighboring countries, while Moscow has reinforced the pompousness of the event…

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Kurilla: The Siege of Leningrad was one of the worst tragedies of humankind in the last century

(Gulf Times) They ate nothing,” Marina Kulagina recalled, telling the story of her mother who survived the years-long Siege of Leningrad in its entirety. Seven of her mother Valentina Grigoryeva’s eight siblings…

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