Appropriating history

the Soviet past in Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian popular culture

Matthias Schwartz, Nina Weller (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

330 Seiten

2023 | 1. Auflage
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978-3-8376-6077-7 (ISBN)

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Popular media plays an important role in reconstructing collective imaginations of history. The contributors to the volume investigate this phenomenon using case studies from Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian popular cultures. Dramatic events and ruptures of the 20th century provide the material for playful as well as neo-imperialist and nationalist appropriations of the past. They show how in mainstream films, TV series, novels, comics and computer games, the reference to Soviet history offers role models, action patterns and even helps to justify current political and military developments. The volume thus presents new insights into the multi-layered and explosive dynamics of the popular cultures of Eastern Europe.

Matthias Schwartz is head of the program area World Literature at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL), Berlin, Germany. His research interests include the cultural history of Russian and Soviet space flight, adventure literature, science-fiction and science popularisation, Eastern European youth cultures, memory cultures, and contemporary literatures in a globalized world.

Nina Weller is a postdoctoral researcher. 2018-2022 she has been the head of the BMBF-Projekt »The Past of the Present« at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. Her research focuses on contemporary literature, popular culture, memory studies and representations of history in Eastern European cultures (Belarusia, Russian, Ukrainian).

Erscheinungsdatum	31.10.2022
Reihe/Serie	Historische Lebenswelten in populären Wissenskulturen/History in Popular Cultures ; 21
Zusatzinfo	Illustrationen
Verlagsort	Bielefeld
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 240 mm
Gewicht	573 g
Einbandart	kartoniert
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
Schlagworte	Belarus • Comics • Computer Games • cultural appropriation • Cultural History • Cultural Memory • Culture • Eastern European History • Film • History • Literature • Mass media • media • Memory Culture • popular culture • Popular History • Post-Soviet • Public History • Russia • Television Series • Ukraine
ISBN-10	3-8376-6077-X / 383766077X
ISBN-13	978-3-8376-6077-7 / 9783837660777
Zustand	Neuware