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The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1995 - Myth, Memories, and Monuments (Paperback)
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The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1995 - Myth, Memories, and Monuments (Paperback)
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The siege of Leningrad constituted one of the most dramatic
episodes of World War II, one that individuals and the state began
to commemorate almost immediately. Official representations of
'heroic Leningrad' omitted and distorted a great deal. Nonetheless,
survivors struggling to cope with painful memories often
internalized, even if they did not completely accept, the state's
myths, and they often found their own uses for the state's
monuments. Tracing the overlap and interplay of individual memories
and fifty years of Soviet mythmaking, this book contributes to
understandings of both the power of Soviet identities and the
delegitimizing potential of the Soviet Union's chief legitimizing
myths. Because besieged Leningrad blurred the boundaries between
the largely male battlefront and the predominantly female home
front, it offers a unique vantage point for a study of the gendered
dimensions of the war experience, urban space, individual memory,
and public commemoration.
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