Ghosts of War (eBook)

Nazi Occupation and Its Aftermath in Soviet Belarus

Franziska Exeler (Autor)

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2022
360 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-6275-8 (ISBN)

Infos

How do states and societies confront the legacies of war and occupation, and what do truth, guilt, and justice mean in that process? In Ghosts of War, Franziska Exeler examines people's wartime choices and their aftermath in Belarus, a war-ravaged Soviet republic that was under Nazi occupation during the Second World War.

After the Red Army reestablished control over Belarus, one question shaped encounters between the returning Soviet authorities and those who had lived under Nazi rule, between soldiers and family members, reevacuees and colleagues, Holocaust survivors and their neighbors: What did you do during the war?

Ghosts of War analyzes the prosecution and punishment of Soviet citizens accused of wartime collaboration with the Nazis and shows how individuals sought justice, revenge, or assistance from neighbors and courts. The book uncovers the many absences, silences, and conflicts that were never resolved, as well as the truths that could only be spoken in private, yet it also investigates the extent to which individuals accommodated, contested, and reshaped official Soviet war memory. The result is a gripping examination of how efforts at coming to terms with the past played out within, and at times through, a dictatorship.

Autor

Franziska Exeler is Assistant Professor of History at Free University Berlin. She is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for History and Economics, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge.

Inhalt

Introduction: Truth, Guilt, and Justice in an Illiberal State
1. Contested Space: An East European Borderland before 1941
2. At the Heart of Darkness: Wartime Choices, 1941–1944
3. Post-1944: The Moment of Return
4. Determining Guilt: The Soviet Politics of Retribution
5. Loss, Grief, and Reckonings: Personal Responses to the Ghosts of War
6. Belarus, the Partisan Republic: Narrating the Years of War and Occupation
Afterword
Note on Wartime Losses

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 13 b&w halftones, 5 maps
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: WWII soviet union, war memory and trauma in the postwar soviet union, soviet rule prior to 1941, transitional justice, war and morality, truth and justice in the aftermath of nazi-soviet total war, soviet union and the holocaust • WWII soviet union, war memory and trauma, postwar soviet union, soviet rule prior to 1941, transitional justice, war and morality, soviet union and the holocaust
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-6275-3 / 1501762753
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-6275-8 / 9781501762758