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"Our glorious past" : Lukashenka's Belarus and the Great Patriotic War /
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 t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stuttgart :
Ibidem-Verlag,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society ;
124. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.