TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mijnssen,Ivo
TI  - Russia's Hero Cities: From Postwar Ruins to the Soviet Heroarchy
SN  - 9780253056214
AV  - NA9325 .M556 2021 
U1  - 307.760947 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - War memorials-Soviet Union
KW  - War and society-Soviet Union
KW  - Cities and towns-Soviet Union-History
KW  - World War, 1939-1945-Soviet Union-Propaganda
KW  - Collective memory-Soviet Union
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- The Hero Cities -- Short Description of Hero Cities -- 1. Heroism across Generations -- 2. Creating an Idealized Past: The Soviet Heroarchy from Stalin to Brezhnev -- 3. Victory Square: The Place of Memory in Tula -- 4. Great Expectations: A Worthy Life -- 5. Novorossiysk as a Monumental Ensemble: Little Land and the Ideal of War -- 6. Brezhnev's Beloved Novorossiysk: Wartime Glory and Window to the World -- 7. Impossible Continuity -- Appendix: Archives and Interviews -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
N2  - By exploring the significance of Hero Cities in Soviet identity and the enduring but conflicted importance they hold for Russians today, Russia's Hero Cities exposes how the Great Patriotic War no longer has the power to mask the deep rifts still present in Russian society
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