The Eastern Front

War, Myth, and Memory

Buch | Hardcover

424 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-50610-4 (ISBN)

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This is one of the few critical examinations of the war on the Second World War’s Eastern Front that includes both perspectives and looks at the war as a multifaceted effort.

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.

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).

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

Erscheinungsdatum	15.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Second World War History
Zusatzinfo	6 Halftones, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	970 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-032-50610-5 / 1032506105
ISBN-13	978-1-032-50610-4 / 9781032506104
Zustand	Neuware