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Amir WeinerPublication Details
BookPrinceton University Press2001Availability
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In Making Sense of War, Amir Weiner reconceptualizes the entire historical experience of the Soviet Union from a new perspective, that of World War II. Through a richly detailed look at Soviet society as a whole, and at one Ukrainian region in particular, the author shows how World War II came to define the ways in which members of the political elite as well as ordinary citizens viewed the world and acted upon their beliefs and ideologies. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- World War, 1939-1945 — Psychological aspects
- World War, 1939-1945 — Soviet Union
- World War, 1939-1945 — Social aspects — Soviet Union
- World War, 1939-1945 — Moral and ethical aspects — Soviet Union
- World War, 1939-1945 — Ukraine — Vinnytsia Region
- World War, 1939-1945 — Propaganda
- Propaganda, Soviet — History
- Communism — Soviet Union — History
- Vinnytsia Region (Ukraine) — History — 20th century
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- "In making Sense of War, Amir Weiner reconceptualizes the entire historical experience of the Soviet Union from a new perspective, that of World War II. Breaking with the conventional interpretation that views World War II as a post-revolutionary addendum, Weiner situates this event at the crux of the development of the Soviet - not just the Stalinist - system. Through a richly detailed look at Soviet society as a whole, and at one Ukrainian region in particular, the author shows how World War II came to define the ways in which members of the political elite a well as ordinary citizens viewed the world and acted upon their beliefs and ideologies."–BOOK JACKET
Contents
- Introduction: Making Sense of War
- Pt. I. Delineating the Body Politic. 1. Myth and Power: The Making of a Postwar Elite. 2. "Living Up to the Calling of a Communist": Purification of the Rank and File
- Pt. II. Delineating the Body Socioethnic. 3. Excising Evil. 4. Memory of Excision, Excisionary Memory
- Pt. III. The Making of a Postwar Soviet Nation. 5. Integral Nationalism in the Trial of War. 6. Peasants to Soviets, Peasants to Ukrainians
- Afterword: A Soviet World without Soviet Power, a Myth of War without War
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- 0691057028
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