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War Monuments, Public Patriotism, and Bereavement in Russia, 1905–2015

War Monuments, Public Patriotism, and Bereavement in Russia, 1905–2015
Author: Aaron J. Cohen
Price: $42.50
ISBN-10: 1498577482
ISBN-13: 9781498577489
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This study analyzes how public bereavement became cemented into the broad geography of Russian culture with the appearance of experiential and local memorials in the 1960s after a half century of instability, contestation, and absence. The author shows how monument builders responded to a need from the population to share an accessible war experience apart from the exclusive Bolshevik memorial culture. He argues that this development of war commemoration has amplified the role of war hero memorialization as an anchor of public stability and social solidarity in Putin’s Russia, where there is little consensus about the past, present, or future.