Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: The Great War in Russian Memory
2. Spirituality, the Supernatural, and the Memory of World War I
3. The Paradoxes of Gender in Soviet War Memory
4. Violence, Morality, and the Conscience of the Warrior
5. World War I and the Definition of Russianness
6. Arrested History
7. Disappearance and Reappearance
8. Legacies of the Great War
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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About the Author

Karen Petrone is Associate Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. She is author of Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin (IUP, 2000) and editor (with Valerie Kivelson, Michael S. Flier, and Nancy Shields Kollmann) of The New Muscovite Cultural History: A Collection in Honor of Daniel B. Rowland.

Reviews

"An original work of serious scholarship... Petrone engages with a flourishing literature on the cultural consequences of the First World War." Peter Gatrell, author of A Whole Empire Walking "Petrone makes very important contributions not only to the field of Russian and Soviet history but to the field of World War I studies as well." Joshua A. Sanborn, Lafayette College "Intermingling WWI memories and Russian Revolution mythology, this study provides a brief but fascinating overview of the complexity of Great War memory." - World War I Bridges