Memoirs of a Revolutionary, 1901–1941 and The Soviet History of World War II: Myths, Memories, and Realities

Based on Russian and French materials, a comparative analysis of the informational value of French and Soviet (archived in Russia) documents on the participation of Soviet citizens in the French Resistance was carried out for the first time, their authenticity and reliability were evaluated. In this article, the authors examined the difficulties of documenting the participation of Soviet people in the French Resistance during and after World War II. The authors showed how the processes of “liquidation” of the Resistance structures and the repatriation of displaced Soviet citizens caused lacunae in the archival holdings. The article reveals the history of the formation, description and use of documentary systems preserved in France and Russia about the participation of Soviet people in the Resistance, as well as the creation of their scientific and reference apparatus. The authors demonstrate how those sources were used in the historiography of the Resistance in various periods of Soviet history and Franco-Russian relations. The authors provided the most relevant information about the libraries, museums and archives that store and collect those documents; for the first time, recommendations are given for working with their scientific and reference apparatus, as well as an advice to Russian-speaking researchers of the Second World War, including the family history researchers.

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Kazakhstan in World War II: Authors and Publishers of Post-1991 History Textbooks

Central Asian Affairs ◽

10.30965/22142290-12340004 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 251-272

Author(s):

Berikbol Dukeyev

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Secondary School ◽

Second World War ◽

History Textbooks ◽

Ordinary People ◽

World War ◽

Soviet History ◽

History Of ◽

Second World ◽

Human Losses

Abstract The paper examines the production of secondary-school textbooks published between 1992 and 2019 that address the Soviet history of Kazakhstan. It argues that textbook authors exercise agency when discussing Kazakhstan’s participation in the Second World War. While some authors focus squarely on the heroism of Kazakhs and the Kazakh nation’s contribution to the final victory, others build upon this narrative by discussing the human losses incurred and the experiences of ordinary people. This article contributes to studies looking at portrayals of World War II in post-Soviet countries’ history textbooks.

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“PLACES OF MEMORY” TRANSFORMATION IN POST-SOVIET KYIV’S CULTURAL PLACES A CASE OF JANUARY UPRISING STREET

Mìsto ìstorìâ kulʹtura suspìlʹstvo ◽

10.15407/mics2020.08.054 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 54-70

Author(s):

Yana Prymachenko

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Public Space ◽

Second World War ◽

Historical Event ◽

Cultural Representations ◽

World War ◽

Soviet History ◽

Places Of Memory ◽

History Of ◽

Second World

The article deals with the transformation of “places of memory” in post-Soviet Kyiv’s cultural space based on the case of January Uprising Street. The main attention focuses on three events crucial for Ukrainian history in the twentieth century: the 1917–1921 Ukrainian Revolution, Holodomor and the Second World War. The author highlights the change in the ideological connotation and cultural representations of Soviet “places of memory” during almost thirty years of Ukrainian independence. The former January Uprising Street, which today consists of two streets – Ivan Mazepa and Lavrska – would for a long period of time signify the key events of Soviet history: October Revolution Civil war and World War II. The Park of Eternal Glory and Memorial complex “Ukrainian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945” (now known as the National Museum of the history of Ukraine in the Second World War) built into the historical space pf the ancient Kyiv had to propagate the main Soviet historical event. After Ukraine gained independence the space along the former January Upraising Street has transformed greatly. The public space has been affected by the rediscovery of forgotten and erased events.

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The Film World’s Cooperative Store: Institutions and Films of the 1930s and 1940s

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474424134.003.0005 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

C. Claire Thomson

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Meat Products ◽

Public Information ◽

Early History ◽

World War ◽

International Context ◽

German Occupation ◽

History Of ◽

The Uk ◽

The Impact

This chapter traces the early history of state-sponsored informational filmmaking in Denmark, emphasising its organisation as a ‘cooperative’ of organisations and government agencies. After an account of the establishment and early development of the agency Dansk Kulturfilm in the 1930s, the chapter considers two of its earliest productions, both process films documenting the manufacture of bricks and meat products. The broader context of documentary in Denmark is fleshed out with an account of the production and reception of Poul Henningsen’s seminal film Danmark (1935), and the international context is accounted for with an overview of the development of state-supported filmmaking in the UK, Italy and Germany. Developments in the funding and output of Dansk Kulturfilm up to World War II are outlined, followed by an account of the impact of the German Occupation of Denmark on domestic informational film. The establishment of the Danish Government Film Committee or Ministeriernes Filmudvalg kick-started aprofessionalisation of state-sponsored filmmaking, and two wartime public information films are briefly analysed as examples of its early output. The chapter concludes with an account of the relations between the Danish Resistance and an emerging generation of documentarists.

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Recasting Bourgeois Europe

10.23943/princeton/9780691169798.001.0001 ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Charles S. Maier ◽

Charles S. Maier

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Social Vulnerability ◽

Group Representation ◽

Political Stability ◽

Status Quo ◽

European History ◽

World War ◽

History Of ◽

Country Analysis ◽

Economic Stabilization

The author, one of the most prominent contemporary scholars of European history, published this, his first book, in 1975. Based on extensive archival research, the book examines how European societies progressed from a moment of social vulnerability to one of political and economic stabilization. Arguing that a common trajectory calls for a multi country analysis, the book provides a comparative history of three European nations—France, Germany, and Italy—and argues that they did not simply return to a prewar status quo, but achieved a new balance of state authority and interest group representation. While most previous accounts presented the decade as a prelude to the Depression and dictatorships, the author suggests that the stabilization of the 1920s, vulnerable as it was, foreshadowed the more enduring political stability achieved after World War II. The immense and ambitious scope of this book, its ability to follow diverse histories in detail, and its effort to explain stabilization—and not just revolution or breakdown—have made it a classic of European history.

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