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´Our Glorious Past´: Lukashenka´s Belarus and the Great Patriotic War

David R Marples (Autor)

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2014
ibidem (Verlag)
978-3-8382-0675-2 (ISBN)

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This timely book examines how the regime of President Aliaksandr Lukashenka has used the Great Patriotic War (1941-45) as a key element in state and identity formation in Belarus. The campaign was discernible from 2003 and intensified after a rift with Russia that led to a re-examination of the earlier policy of close political and economic partnership. David R. Marples focuses in particular on the years 2009 and 2010, which commemorated two 65th anniversaries: the liberation of Minsk (3 July 1944) and the end of World War II in Europe (9 May 1945). Using a variety of sources, this unique book critically examines the official interpretations of the war from various angles: the initial invasion, occupation, the Partisans, historic sites and monuments, films, documentaries, museums, schools, and public occasions commemorating some of the major events. Relying on first-hand research, including books recommended by the Ministry of Education, state-controlled media and examinations through personal visits to the major historic sites and monuments of Belarus, Marples explains and measures the effectiveness of Lukashenka s program. In outlining the main tenets of the state interpretation of the war years, the book highlights the distortions and manipulations of historical evidence as well as the dismissal of alternative versions as historical revisionism. It assesses the successes and weaknesses of the campaign as well as its long term effects and prospects.

Andreas Umland, M.Phil. (Oxford), Dr.Phil. (FU Berlin), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv, and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Distinguished University Professor of Russian and East European History, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

"This excellent book fills a longstanding void in literature on the politics of memory in Eastern Europe. Professor Marples has produced an innovative and courageous study of how postcommunist Ukraine is rewriting its Stalinist and wartime past by gradually but inconsistently substituting Soviet models with nationalist interpretations. Clearly written and well argued, this study will make a major impact both within and beyond academia."-Serhy Yekelchyk, University of Victoria, on David R. Marples, "Heroes and Villains: Creating National History in Contemporary Ukraine" (2008)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.2014
Reihe/Serie	Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Andreas Umland
Verlagsort	Hannover
Sprache	deutsch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	689 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte	1941-1944 • Aljaksandr Lukashenko • Belarus • campaigns • Collective memory • German occupation • Great Patriotic War • Historiography • History • memorialization • Military • Politics • Second World War
ISBN-10	3-8382-0675-4 / 3838206754
ISBN-13	978-3-8382-0675-2 / 9783838206752
Zustand	Neuware