The Soviet Myth of World War II
Jonathan Brunstedt How did a socialist society, ostensibly committed to Marxist ideals of internationalism and global class struggle, reconcile itself to notions of patriotism, homeland, Russian ethnocentrism, and the glorification of war? In this provocative new history, Jonathan Brunstedt pursues this question through the lens of the myth and remembrance of victory in World War II – arguably the central defining event of the...
La rivoluzione Russa: era necessaria?
20–21 Ottobre Museo della Città, Rimini Venerdì 20 ottobre, ore 16 Presiede Luciano Canfora (Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici) Alexis Bérélowitch (Université Paris IV – Sorbonne) “Les lois de l’histoire” (istoricheskaya zakonomernost’) et la révolution de 1917 Ettore Cinnella (Università di Pisa) Trionfo e disfatta del populismo russo (1917–1918) Marcello Flores d’Arcais (Università di Siena) Il mito dell’Ottobre tra Russia e...
Constructing the “Soviet”?
Constructing the “Soviet”? Political Consciousness, Everyday Practices, New Identities 04/18/2014 – 04/19/2014 European University at Saint-Petersburg opens a call for papers for Constructing the “Soviet”? Political Consciousness, Everyday Practices, New Identities, an annually held conference for Master and PhD Students doing their research in the humanities and social sciences. This 8th Conference will take place on April...
