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1 online resource (xxi, 403 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Soviet and post-soviet politics and society, 1614-3515 ; v. 124 |
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Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society ; 124.
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| Contents |
PREFACE; TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION OF NAMES; INTRODUCTION: LUKASHENKA'S BELARUS; CHAPTER ONE: THE START OF THE WAR; Introduction; School Textbooks; Interlude: Soviet Rule Extends to Western Belarus; The Start of the Great Patriotic War; Evacuations; The View from the Military; CHAPTER TWO: THE GERMAN OCCUPATION REGIME; Introduction; School Textbooks; Life Under Occupation; Camps; Collaboration; The Holocaust; CHAPTER THREE: THE PARTISANS; Introduction; School Textbooks; Vasily Korzh; Sydir Kovpak; Organizing Partisans; The NKVD and NKGB; Operations |
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CHAPTER FOUR: VETERAN HEROESIntroduction; Pilot Heroes; Heroes of the Soviet Union; Non-Belarusians; Young Heroes; MVD, Espionage; Fighting the War from the Beginning to the End; Late War Heroes; Heroes on Distant Fronts; Zhukov and Belarus; Surviving Veterans; Female Veterans; Patriotic Education; CHAPTER FIVE: LIBERATION AND VICTORY; Introduction; Part One: Liberation of Belarus; School Textbooks; Narratives on the Liberation of Belarus; Part Two: Aerial Warfare; Part Three: Victory; CHAPTER SIX: HISTORIC SITES AND MEMORIALS; Chatyń (Khatyn); The Brest "Hero" Fortress |
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Liniya Stalina (The Stalin Line)Monuments; a) Minsk; b) Other Areas of Belarus; c) Monuments Outside Belarus; Finding the Dead; CHAPTER SEVEN: PUBLICIZING THE WAR; Museums; Conferences; Concerts and Public Displays; Commemorations; Books and Documentaries; The Fortress of War Movie; The 65th Anniversary of Liberation of Belarus, 2009; The 65th Anniversary of the Victory, 2010; CHAPTER EIGHT: HISTORICAL REVISIONISM; Background; Victory Day; War Losses; The Vilnius Declaration; Political Officers and Penal Battalions; Treatment of Veterans; Illia Kopyl and the Partisans; CONCLUSION |
| Summary |
This timely book examines how the regime of President Aliaksandr Lukashenka has used the Great Patriotic War' (1941-45) as a key element in state and identity formation in Belarus. The campaign was discernible from 2003 and intensified after a rift with Russia that led to a re-examination of the earlier policy of close political and economic partnership. David R. Marples focuses in particular on the years 2009 and 2010, which commemorated two 65th anniversaries: the liberation of Minsk (3 July 1944) and the end of World War II in Europe (9 May 1945). Using a variety of sources, this unique bo |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Lukashenko, Aleksandr, 1954-
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| SUBJECT |
Lukashenko, Aleksandr, 1954- fast (OCoLC)fst00428159 |
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Lukašėnka, Aljaksandr R. 1954- gnd |
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Collective memory -- Belarus
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Historiography -- Political aspects -- Belarus
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Memorialization -- Belarus
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Belarus.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Collective memory.
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Historiography -- Political aspects.
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Memorialization.
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Military campaigns.
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Geschichtspolitik
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Nationalbewusstsein
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Weltkrieg 1939-1945
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Belarus -- History -- German occupation, 1941-1944.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89004903
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Belarus -- History, Military
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Belarus.
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Belarus
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Military history.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783838266749 |
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3838266749 |
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