03834nam 22007213 450 991106902270332120240912084510.09783839460771383946077810.1515/9783839460771(CKB)34868724300041(MiAaPQ)EBC31653293(Au-PeEL)EBL31653293(DE-B1597)651146(DE-B1597)9783839460771(EXLCZ)993486872430004120240912d2024 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAppropriating History The Soviet Past in Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian Popular Culture1st ed.Bielefeld :transcript Verlag,2024.©2024.1 online resource (319 pages)Historische Lebenswelten in populären Wissenskulturen/History in Popular Cultures ;219783837660777 383766077X Frontmatter -- Contents -- Popular Culture and History in Post-Soviet Nation States -- I. Places of Longing: Yesterday’s Tales, Melodramatic Lives and Astonishing Worlds -- Chapter 1: More than Nostalgia -- Chapter 2: Drawn History -- Chapter 3: Narrating Russia’s Multi-Ethnic Past -- Chapter 4: The Zone as a Place of Repentance and Retreat -- II. Combat Zones: War Heroes, Resistance Fighters and Joyful Partisans -- Chapter 5: Alternative Versions of the Past and the Future -- Chapter 6: Ludic Epistemologies and Alternate Histories -- Chapter 7: Partisan, Anti-Partisan, pARTisan, Party-Zan, Cyberpartisan -- Chapter 8: Mummified Subversion -- III. Sites of Trauma: Horror Fantasies, Weird Sceneries and Realms of Terror -- Chapter 9: Dealing with Cultural Traumas -- Chapter 10: Nostalgia for Trauma -- Chapter 11: The Affective Landscapes of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. -- Chapter 12: Come and See, Once Again -- Epilogue -- Public History, Popular Culture, and the Belarusian Experience in a Comparative Perspective -- Appendix -- Acknowledgments -- AuthorsPopular media play an important role in reconstructing collective imaginations of history. Dramatic events and ruptures of the 20th century provide the material for playful as well as neo-imperialist and nationalist appropriations of the past. The contributors to the volume investigate this phenomenon using case studies from Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian popular cultures. They show how in mainstream films, TV series, novels, comics and computer games, the reference to Soviet history offers role models, action patterns and even helps to justify current political and military developments. The volume thus presents new insights into the multi-layered and explosive dynamics of popular culture in Eastern Europe.HISTORY / Europe / EasternbisacshBelarus.Comics.Computer Games.Cultural Appropriation.Cultural History.Cultural Memory.Culture.Eastern European History.Film.History.Literature.Mass Media.Memory Culture.Popular Culture.Post-Soviet.Public History.Russia.Television Series.Ukraine.HISTORY / Europe / Eastern.302.230947Schwartz Matthias1896429Weller Nina1896430MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911069022703321Appropriating History4551024UNINA