The Eastern Front

War, Myth, and Memory
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-50610-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 825 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Second World War History

The Second World War in Eastern Europe is far from a neglected topic, especially since social, cultural, and diplomatic historians have entered a field previously dominated by operational histories, and produced a cornucopia of new scholarship offering a more nuanced picture from both sides of the front. However, until now, the story has still been disjointed and specialized, whereby military, social, economic, and diplomatic histories continue to give their own separate accounts. This collection of essays attempts to bring these themes into a more cohesive whole that tells a complex, multifaceted story of war on the Eastern Front as it truly was.

This is one of the few critical examinations that includes both perspectives and looks at the war as a multi-front effort. It also reveals how myths are created around military conflicts and have direct relevance to current developments in Europe, linking them to a broader discussion of the Second World War, its impact and utility today. It gives a historical dimension to pressing issues and will be of interest and relevance to history students, policymakers, political scientists, diplomats, and foreign policy experts.

The Eastern Front will be a useful reference source, since some chapters rely on extensive new archival research and materials, ego sources, as well as extensive findings of non-Western scholars, thereby bringing their work to the attention of a broader audience.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mann, Yan

Kucherenko, Olga

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

OLGA KUCHERENKO and YAN MANN

PART I

Frontlines

- German Army Command Culture on the Eastern Front

DAVID STAHEL

- Soviet Strategy and Operations in the Great Patriotic War: Stalin, the Stavka and the General Staff

ALEXANDER HILL

- The Soviet Soldier at War: Discipline, Motivation, and Morale

ROGER REESE

- Greyzone Stalingrad: Civilian Experience of the Battle

OLGA KUCHERENKO

PART II

Behind the Frontlines

- The German Army’s Economic Policy and Occupation

JEFF RUTHERFORD

- Settlers of the Reich: The Germans of Hitler’s Frontier

JACOB FLAWS

- In Their Words: Soviet Women in the Ranks of Soviet Intelligence During World War Two

REGINA KAZYULINA

- Ordinary Men with Guns: Police, Partisans, and Civil War in the German-Occupied Soviet Countryside

KENNETH SLEPYAN

PART III

International Front

- The Soviet Elephant and the British Whale: War Strategy and Struggle for Influence in Central and Eastern Europe (1941–45)

ISKANDER MAGADEEV

- Winning Friends and Influencing Allies: Soviet Public Diplomacy Initiatives, 1941-5

OLGA KUCHERENKO

-  American Anti-Stalinists in Defense of the USSR: The Socialist Workers Party, the Nazi-Soviet War, and Intransigent Revolutionism

JASON DAWSEY

PART IV

Memory Front

- The Forgotten: Challenging Brezhnev's Cult of the Great Patriotic War

YAN MANN

- Unwitnessed Memories or Destroy After Reading: the Survival and Suppression of Testimony in the USSR

ASIA KOVRIGINA

- The Museum of the Defense of Leningrad and the Late-Stalinist Assault on Memory

ANYA FREE

Über Autor(innen)

Yan Mann is an Associate Clinical Professor of History and the Program Lead of World War II Studies Master’s degree program at Arizona State University. His research interests include the relationship between individual and collective memory, the Stalin cult, censorship, and propaganda. He is the author of “Situating Stalin in the history of the Second World War,” in the edited volume, The Memory of the Second World War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia (2022) and “Manufactured Memory: Crafting the Cult of the Great Patriotic War,” in the edited volume, Terrortimes, Terrorscapes: Continuities of Space, Time, and Memory in Twentieth-Century War and Genocide (2022).

Olga Kucherenko is a Faculty Associate at World War II Studies Master’s degree program at Arizona State University. Her research interests include conflict-based propaganda, wartime childhood, and allied relations. She is the author of Soviet Street Children and the Second World War: Welfare and Social Control under Stalin (2016) and Little Soldiers: How Soviet Children Went to War, 1941–1945 (2011).