The Great War in Russian Memory

by Karen Petrone

Karen Petrone shatters the notion that World War I was a forgotten war in the Soviet Union. Although never officially commemorated, the Great War was the subject of a lively discourse about religion, heroism, violence, and patriotism during the interwar period. Using memoirs, literature, films, military histories, and archival materials, Petrone reconstructs Soviet ideas regarding the motivations for fighting, the justification for killing, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253356172
• ISBN13: 9780253356178
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.1"