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Author:   Vicky Davis (Independent Scholar, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight:   0.426kg
ISBN:  

9780755602735

ISBN 10:   0755602730
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   20 February 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Illustrations Preface Notes on the Text Introduction: The Myth of Malaia zemlia 1. What is a War Myth? Part I. War Correspondence and Memoirs: The Construction of the Myth through Literature 2. A Myth is Born: War Correspondence from Malaia zemlia 3. Early Memoir Literature 4. Brezhnev's War Memoirs 5. Beyond Brezhnev and Brezhnevism Part II. Leonid Brezhnev: Local Legend or National Statesman? 6. Brezhnev Comes to Town 7. The Godfather 8. The Making of a Modern Legend 9. The State Comes to Town Again Part III. Respect for the Dead: Ritual and Monumental Remembrance 10. Hats off to Heroes: The Beskozyrka Ritual 11. Myth and Monuments: The Place of the Dead 12. People on the Periphery Part IV. Meetings of Generations: Teaching the Young to Remember 13. Genes and Generations: Informal Transmission of Memory in the Family 14. The Educational Role of Veterans 15. Formal Education of the Younger Generation Conclusion: Looking Back to the Future Appendix 1. Some Comments about Novorossiisk Appendix 2. Interviewing Subjects in Novorossiisk Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Vicky Davis received her PhD from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London (UCL), and currently works as a freelance educational consultant and researcher. Davis has worked with a number of leading academics in her role as a researcher, including Roger Moorhouse on The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin (2014) and for Polly Jones (Associate Professor of Russian Literature at the University of Oxford) on several Soviet history projects. She has also published and presented in peer-reviewed journals, edited collections and at international conferences, and there is a section dedicated to her research on myth and war memory at the State Historical Museum in Novorossiisk, Russia.

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