The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR

by Jonathan Brunstedt

This pioneering monograph - a Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year - asks how a socialist society, ostensibly committed to Marxist ideals of internationalism and global class struggle, reconciled itself to notions of patriotism, homeland, Russian ethnocentrism, and the glorification of war. Through the lens of the myth and remembrance of victory in World War II, arguably the central defining event of the Soviet epoch, the book shows that while state...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110871255X
• ISBN13: 9781108712552
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"