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Appropriating History: The Soviet Past in Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian Popular Culture

By Matthias Schwartz (Editor), Nina Weller (Editor)
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By Matthias Schwartz (Editor), Nina Weller (Editor)
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Popular media play an important role in reconstructing collective imaginations of history. Dramatic events and ruptures of the 20th century provide the material for playful as well as neo-imperialist and nationalist appropriations of the past. The contributors to the volume investigate this phenomenon using case studies from Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian popular cultures. They show how in mainstream films, TV series, novels, comics and computer games, the reference to Soviet history off...

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HistoryEuropean HistoryEastern European HistoryEastern Europe - General & Miscellaneous History