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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794441303321

Autore

Mijnssen Ivo

Titolo

Russia's hero cities : from postwar ruins to the Soviet heroarchy / / Ivo Mijnssen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

0-253-05623-3

0-253-05621-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 307 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

947.085

Soggetti

Cities and towns

Collective memory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Heroism across Generations -- Creating an Idealized Past: The Soviet Heroarchy from Stalin to Brezhnev -- Victory Square: The Place of Memory in Tula -- Great Expectations: A Worthy Life -- Novorossiysk as a Monumental Ensemble: Little Land and the Ideal of War -- Brezhnev's Beloved Novorossiysk: Wartime Glory and Window to the World -- Impossible Continuity.

Sommario/riassunto

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.