Histories of the Aftermath : : The Legacies of the Second World War in Europe / / ed. by Robert G. Moeller, Frank Biess.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Ben-Ghiat, Ruth,; Betts, Paul,; Biess, Frank,; Fehrenbach, Heide,; Kirschenbaum, Lisa A.,; Krylova, Anna,; Lagrou, Pieter,; Lebow, Katherine,; Moeller, Robert G.,; Moyn, Samuel,; Naimark, Norman M.,; Naumann, Klaus,; Rose, Sonya O.,; Tsypkin, Mikhail,; Wierling, Dorothee,; Youngblood, Denise J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Biess, Frank,; Moeller, Robert G.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (326 p.)

In 1945, Europeans confronted a legacy of mass destruction and death: millions of families had lost their homes and livelihoods; millions of men in uniform had lost their lives; and millions more had been displaced by the war’s destruction, and the genocidal policies of the Nazi regime. From a range of methodological historical perspectives—military, cultural, and social, to film and gender and sexuality studies—this volume explores how Europeans came to terms with these multiple pasts. With a focus on distinctive national experiences in both Eastern and Western Europe, it illuminates how postwar stabilization coexisted with persistent insecurities, injuries, and trauma.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION Histories of the Aftermath -- PART I Defining the Postwar -- CHAPTER 1 The Persistence of “the Postwar” Germany and Poland -- CHAPTER 2 Feelings in the Aftermath: Toward a History of Postwar Emotions -- CHAPTER 3 In the Aftermath of Camps -- PART II Public and Private Memories -- CHAPTER 4 Nothing Is Forgotten: Individual Memory and the Myth of the Great Patriotic War -- CHAPTER 5 Neither Erased nor Remembered: Soviet “Women Combatants” and Cultural Strategies of Forgetting in Soviet Russia, 1940s–1980s -- CHAPTER 6 Generations as Narrative Communities: Some Private Sources of Public Memory in Postwar Germany -- PART III Mass-Mediating War: How Movies Shaped Memories -- CHAPTER 7 “When Will the Real Day Come?” War Films and Soviet Postwar Culture -- CHAPTER 8 Winning the Peace at the Movies: Suffering, Loss, and Redemption in Postwar German Cinema -- CHAPTER 9 Italian Cinema and the Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy -- PART IV The Reconstruction of Citizenship -- CHAPTER 10 War Orphans and Postfascist Families Kinship and Belonging after 1945 -- CHAPTER 11 Manners, Morality, and Civilization: Reflections on Postwar German Etiquette Books -- CHAPTER 12 “We Are Building a Common Home” The Moral Economy of Citizenship in Postwar Poland -- CHAPTER 13 From the “New Jerusalem” to the “Decline” of the “New Elizabethan Age” National Identity and Citizenship in Britain, 1945–56 -- PART V In the Shadow of the Bomb: Military Cultures -- CHAPTER 14 The Great Tradition and the Fates of Annihilation: West German Military Culture in the Aftermath of the Second World War -- CHAPTER 15 The Soviet Military Culture and the Legacy of the Second World War -- CHAPTER 16 1945–1955 The Age of Total War -- Select Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index