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This volume considers the relationship between the history of the Soviet Union and contemporary Russian culture, exploring how cinema, television, music, education and more reflect historical narratives, particularly in relation to Josef Stalin. The contributors contend that 'Russia's inability to fully rewrite Soviet history plays [a] part in its current political agenda'.
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Revisiting the Future of the Soviet Past and the Memory of Stalinist Repression, by Nanci Adler and Anton Weiss-Wendt
Part I: The Present Memory of the Past
1. Presentism, Politicization of History, and the New Role of the Historian in Russia, by Ivan Kurilla
2. Secondhand History: Outsourcing Russia's Past to Kremlin's Proxies, by Anton Weiss-Wendt
3. The Soviet Past and the 1945 Victory Cult as Civil Religion in Contemporary Russia, by Nikita Petrov
4. Russia as a Bulwark against Anti-Semitism and Holocaust Denial: The Second World War according to Moscow, by Kiril Feferman
Part II: Museums, Pop Culture, and Other Memory Battlegrounds
5. Keeping the Past in the Past: The Attack on the Perm 36 Gulag Museum and Russian Historical Memory of Soviet Repression, by Steven A. Barnes
6. Known and Unknown Soldiers: Remembering Russia's Fallen in the Great Patriotic War, by Johanna Dahlin
7. Fighters of the Invisible Front: Re-imaging the Aftermath of the Great Patriotic War in Recent Russian Television Series, by Boris Noordenbos
8. War, Cinema, and the Politics of Memory in Putin 2.0 Culture, by Stephen M. Norris
Part III: Remembering and Framing the Soviet Past beyond Russia's Borders
9. The 2014 Russian Memory Law in European Context, by Nikolay Koposov
10. Tenacious Pasts: Geopolitics and the Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Issues, by George Soroka
11. The 1968 Invasion of Czechoslovakia: Return to the Soviet Interpretation, by Štěpán Černoušek
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