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Table of Contents
Back from Afghanistan: The Experiences of Soviet Afghan War Veterans
Back from Afghanistan: Experiences of Soviet Afghan War Veterans in Transnational Perspective
The Soviet–Afghan War and its Consequences
The Return of Soviet Soldiers to New Post-Soviet Republics
Four Dimensions of the Collective Afgantsy Experience
The Varied Reintegration of the Afghan War Veterans in Their Home Society
Welcome Home?
Acclimatization: to Swim or Flounder in the Maelstrom of Perestroika?
Career Patterns
Veteran Associations: the Salience of Collective Action
The Afgantsy, Perestroika and the Break-up of the Soviet Union
The Role of Afgantsy Generals in Soviet and Successor State Politics
A Fragile Movement: Afghan War Veterans and the Soviet Collapse in Tajikistan, 1979–92
1. The Tajik Afgantsy
2.The Evolution of the Afgantsy Movement
3. The Tajik Troubles, 1990–92
Conclusion
“Our Pain and Our Glory”: Social Strategies of Legitimization and Functionalization of the Soviet–Afghan War in the Russian Federation1
Political Distance and Economic Decline—The State’s Handling of the War in the 1990s
Veterans in the 1990s: A Shared Sense of State Neglect and Military Fraternity
The State and Veterans’ Organizations in the 1990s: A Precarious Relationship
The Afgantsy as a Mainstay of National Identity from the 2000s
The 2000s: The Start of a New Cooperation between Veterans’ Organizations and the State
Wartime Recollections on the Individual Level in the 2010s
Why We Were Sent to Afghanistan
Militarism as Instrument of In- and Exclusion
Conclusion
Veterans of the Soviet–Afghan War and the Ukrainian Nation-Building Project: from Perestroika to the Maidan and the War in the Donbas[1]
Introduction
“My left boot is an occupier, and my right one—a liberator”: Ambiguous Reflections on the Afghan War Experience in Ukrainian Society
Position in the Public Sphere: “Frontline Camaraderie” Then and Now
Afhantsi on the Maidan: “Fathers and Sons” or “A Human Shield Between the Two Sides”?
Back in the Army Ranks Again: the Participation of Afhantsi in the War in the Donbas
Afhantsi and ATO Veterans: Symbolic Continuity and the Question of Benefits
Conclusion
Post-Soviet Legacies of Afghanistan: A Comparative Perspective[1]
How the Specifics of Afghanistan Shaped the Legacy of the Last Soviet War
The Meaning of the Soviet–Afghan War for Post-Soviet Space
The Afghanistan Veterans: Who Are They?
Some Conclusions
Faces of the Lithuanian Afganai
Martyrdom and Memory in Eastern Europe
Soviet and Post-Soviet Varieties of Martyrdom and Memory
War and Martyrdom in the Twentieth Century and After
Memory Regimes East and West
Europe Divided
Memory Regimes
Moving in Opposite Directions
The Polish Case
Memory Bridges
Jewish Memory Regimes
Conclusion
Martyrdom, Spectacle, and Public Space: Ukraine’s National Martyrology from Shevchenko to the Maidan
Martyrdom, Meaning, and Public Space
Romanticism and Spectacle
Martyrdom as Cultural Paradigm
Twentieth-Century Martyrology: Kruty and Stalinist Terror
Ukraine’s Churches and the National Martyrdom Discourse
World War II
Post-Soviet Martyrdom and Martyrology: from Gongadze to Nihoyan
Post-Maidan, not Post-Martyrology
The Eternal Martyr: Karen Shakhnazarov’s White Tiger as a Cinematic Reflection on Russian Martyrdom
In Search of a Modern Mnemonic Narrative of Communism: Russia’s Mnemopolitical Mimesis during the Medvedev Presidency
“We Need a Modern Narrative”
“Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?” (cf. Winterson 2011)
Mnemopolitics as Mimesis
Conclusion
Holodomor, Amnesia, and Memory-(Re)Making in Post-War Ukrainian Literature and Film
Overcoming Hegemonic Martyrdom: The Afterlife of Khatyn in Belarusian Memory
The Sacrificial Victim
Martyrdom and Glory
Trauma and Disorientation
Post-Soviet Polarization
Khatyn Transnationalized
Conclusion
Conference Report
De-Mythologizing Bandera: Towards a Scholarly History of the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement
Bandera’s Tempting Shadow: The Problematic History of Ukrainian Radical Nationalism in the Wake of the Maidan
The “Providnyk” and the Individual’s Role in History
Cleaning Up All Myths: the OUN’s Ideology and Systematic Ethnic Violence
Ukrainian Radical Nationalism in Comparative Perspective
Bandera, the OUN and Post-Maidan Ukraine
From Staryi Uhryniv to Munich: The First Scholarly Biography of Stepan Bandera1
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