The Monarchy’s Role in Sacralising Post-War Commemoration

Loyalism, Nationalism and the Army, 1790–1860

Soldiers as Citizens ◽

10.3828/liverpool/9781789620863.003.0007 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 151-171

Author(s):

Nick Mansfield

Keyword(s):

Working Class ◽

Napoleonic Wars ◽

British Army ◽

Post War ◽

War Commemoration

In contrast to chapters 3, 4 and 5, this chapter examines the traditional anti-foreigner and particularly anti-French feeling shared by many working class people. It examines how this aided the British army in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and assesses how it contributed to the strengthening of political loyalism rather than radicalism. The account looks at examples of extraordinary rank and file unsolicited wartime bravery, and general keeness for battle which were promoted by post war commemoration and growing loyalty amongst soldiers to the martial traditions of their regiments. With rank and file support for regiment, army and nation, and with the army’s growing imperial role after 1815, this loyalism was combined with incipient imperialism. In addition, the survival of officer paternalism, albeit patchy, contributed to rank and file loyalty, often absorbing the anti-radicalism of the officer class. All this contributed to soldiers almost universally ‘doing their duty’ and explains why radical subversion was unsuccessful and why regiments could be safely used by the Victorian authorities against Chartists and strikers.

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Gender and the Construction of Wartime Heroism in Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union

European History Quarterly ◽

10.1177/0265691409105062 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 465-489 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Lisa A. Kirschenbaum ◽

Nancy M. Wingfield

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Soviet Union ◽

World War ◽

Male And Female ◽

Relative Lack ◽

The Soviet Union ◽

Entire Nation ◽

The Difference ◽

Post War ◽

War Commemoration

During World War II, the Soviet media featured both male and female military heroes as part of an effort to mobilize the entire nation for the protection of hearth and home. The wartime hero cults inspired post-war commemoration in both the Soviet Union and in countries it `liberated' from Nazism. However, no single Communist/Soviet model of commemoration and heroism was imposed on post-World War II Eastern Europe. The relative lack of female heroes constituted one of the most striking differences between the `cults' of the war in the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia. The difference can be explained in part as a consequence of the very different Soviet and Czechoslovak wartime experiences. The absence of female heroes also points to post-war differences in how the two states' leaders understood and employed the legitimizing potential of the war. These differences in turn shaped the post-Communist fate of hero cults in both countries.

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Cast Down, But Not Forsaken

Ontario History ◽

10.7202/1050721ar ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 106 (1) ◽

pp. 57-76

Author(s):

Elliot Worsfold

Keyword(s):

Second World War ◽

World War ◽

The First World War ◽

Post War ◽

Hyphenated Identity ◽

English Canadian ◽

War Commemoration ◽

Second World ◽

First World ◽

Wartime Experience

This study seeks to reassess the notion that German-Canadians in Ontario were “silent victims” during the Second World War by exploring the wartime experience and memory of German-Canadian Lutheran congregations in Oxford and Waterloo Counties. Far from silent, Lutheran pastors initiated several strategies to ensure their congregants did not face discrimination and internment as they had during the First World War. These strategies encompassed several reforms, including eliminating German language church services and embracing English-Canadian symbols and forms of post-war commemoration. However, these reforms were often met with resistance and ambivalence by their congregations, thereby creating a conversation within the German-Canadian Lutheran community on how to reconcile its Germanic and Lutheran heritage with waging a patriotic war. While previous studies have primarily focused on identity loss, this study suggests that the debates that occurred within these Lutheran churches were representative of the community’s German-Canadian hyphenated identity.

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Commemorating the Future in Post-War Chernivtsi

East European Politics and Societies and Cultures ◽

10.1177/0888325410364673 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 24 (3) ◽

pp. 435-463 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Svetlana Frunchak

Keyword(s):

Collective Memory ◽

Large Scale ◽

Second World War ◽

Dominant Culture ◽

Anti Semitism ◽

Scale Population ◽

Post War ◽

The City ◽

War Commemoration ◽

Second World

Throughout the Second World War and the post-war period, the city of Chernivtsi was transformed from a multiethnic and borderland urban microcosm into a culturally uniform Soviet socialist city. As the Soviets finally took power in this onetime capital of a Hapsburg province in 1944, they not only sponsored further large-scale population transfers but also “repopulated” its history, creating a new urban myth of cultural uniformity. This article examines the connection between war commemoration in Chernivtsi in the era of post-war, state-sponsored anti-Semitism and the formation of collective memory and identities of the city’s post-war population. The images of homogeneously Ukrainian Chernivtsi and Bukovina were created through the art of monumental propaganda, promoting public remembrance of certain events and personalities while making sure that others were doomed to oblivion. Selective commemoration of the wartime events was an important tool of drawing the borders of Ukrainian national identity, making it exclusivist and ethnic-based. Through an investigation of the origins of the post-war collective memory in the region, this article addresses the problem of perceived discontinuity between all things Soviet and post-Soviet in Ukraine. It demonstrates that it is, on the contrary, the continuity between Soviet and post-Soviet eras that defines today’s dominant culture and state ideology in Ukraine and particularly in its borderlands.

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