Histories of the Aftermath : : The Legacies of the Second World War in Europe /

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

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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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (326 p.)
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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

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