"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Marples, David R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stuttgart : Ibidem-Verlag, [2014]
Colección:Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society ; 124.
Temas:
Lukashenko, Aleksandr, > 1954-
Lukašėnka, Aljaksandr R. > 1954-
1939-1945
Collective memory > Belarus.
World War, 1939-1945 > Historiography > Political aspects > Belarus.
Memorialization > Belarus.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Belarus.
Mémoire collective > Biélorussie.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Historiographie > Aspect politique > Biélorussie.
Commémorations > Biélorussie.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Campagnes et batailles > Biélorussie.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Collective memory.
Historiography > Political aspects.
Memorialization.
Military campaigns.
Geschichtspolitik
Nationalbewusstsein
Weltkrieg > 1939-1945
Belarus > History > German occupation, 1941-1944.
Belarus > History, Military.
Biélorussie > Histoire > 1941-1944 (Occupation allemande)
Belarus.
Belarus
Electronic books.
History.
Military history.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxi, 403 pages) : illustrations, map
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9783838266749
3838266749
ISSN:1614-3515 ;

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