Ghosts of War : : Nazi Occupation and Its Aftermath in Soviet Belarus / / Franziska Exeler.

How do states and societies try to confront the legacies of war and occupation, and what is the meaning of truth, guilt, and justice 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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 13 b&w halftones, 5 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Language,Transliteration,and Terms
  • Introduction: Truth, Guilt, and Justice in an Illiberal State
  • Chapter 1 Contested Space: An East European Borderland before 1941
  • Chapter 2 At the Heart of Darkness Wartime Choices, 1941–1944
  • Chapter 3 Post-1944 The Moment of Return
  • Chapter 4 Determining Guilt The Soviet Politics of Retribution
  • Chapter 5 Loss, Grief, and Reckonings Personal Responses to the Ghosts of War
  • Chapter 6 Belarus, the Partisan Republic Narrating the Years of War and Occupation
  • Afterword
  • Note on Wartime Losses
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index