Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (eBook)

2015/2: Double Special Issue: Back from Afghanistan: The Experiences of Soviet Afghan War Veterans and: Martyrdom & Memory in Post-Socialist Space

Julie Fedor, Felix Ackermann, Samuel Greene, Andre Härtel, Andrey Makarychev (Herausgeber)

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2015
502 Seiten
ibidem (Verlag)
978-3-8382-6806-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This double special issue investigates the experiences of Soviet Afghan veterans and the ongoing impact of the Soviet-Afghan war (1979-89); and the new and reconstituted narratives of martyrdom that have been emerging in connection with 20th-century history and memory in the post-socialist world.
The JOURNAL OF SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY (JSPPS) is a new bi-annual companion journal to the Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (SPPS) book series (founded 2004 and edited by Andreas Umland, Dr. phil., PhD).
Guest editors: Felix Ackermann (European Humanities University); Michael Galbas (Konstanz University); Uilleam Blacker (UCL)

Autor

Julie Fedor is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Melbourne. In 2010-13, she was a postdoctoral researcher on the Memory at War project based in the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge (www.memoryatwar.org). She has taught modern Russian history at the Universities of Birmingham, Cambridge, Melbourne, and St Andrews. She is the author of Russia and the Cult of State Security (Routledge, 2011); co-author of Remembering Katyn (Polity, 2012); and co-editor of Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013) and Memory, Conflict and New Media: Web Wars in Post-Socialist States (Routledge, 2013). Andreas Umland (ku-eichstaett.academia.edu/AndreasUmland), CertTransl (Leipzig), AM (Stanford), MPhil (Oxford), DipPolSci, DrPhil (FU Berlin), PhD (Cambridge) is a researcher of contemporary Russian and Ukrainian politics with a focus on the post-Soviet extreme right at the National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" (www.ukma.kiev.ua/ua/faculties/fac_soc/politology/index.php ), and the Eichstaett Institute for Central and East European Studies (http://www.ku-eichstaett.de/forschungseinr/zimos/ ). He is also initiator and co-director a Master`s program in German and European Studies administered jointly by Kyiv`s Mohyla Academy and Jena`s Schiller University (www.des.uni-jena.de/).

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
• Co-Autor: Simon Lewis, Uilleam Blacker, Iryna Starovoyt, Michael Galbas, Maria Mälksoo, Sander Brouwer, Jay Winter, Anna Reich, Markus Göransson
• Mitarbeit: Herausgeber (Serie): Andreas Umland
• Verlagsort: Hannover
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien
• Schlagworte: 21. century • Afghanistan • armed conflict • campaign • conflict • Eastern Europe • Europe • Influence • media • Military • perception • Politics • Propaganda • Russia • soviet afghan war • Soviet Union • Ukraine • veterans • war • war of information
• ISBN-10: 3-8382-6806-7 / 3838268067
• ISBN-13: 978-3-8382-6806-4 / 9783838268064