Danilova The Politics of War Commemoration in the UK and Russia

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-39571-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies

This book analyses contemporary war commemoration in Britain and Russia. Focusing on the political aspects of remembrance, it explores the instrumentalisation of memory for managing civil-military relations and garnering public support for conflicts. It explains the nexus between remembrance, militarisation and nationalism in modern societies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Danilova, Nataliya

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Memory Politics and the Afterlives of Soldiers 2. Media Commemoration in Britain 3. The Story of the War Memorials 4. Remembrance in Modern Britain: Support the Armed Forces 5. Media Commemoration in Russia 6. War Memorials in Russia 7. Remembering War: Celebrating Russianness 8. From Remembrance to Militarisation

Über Autor(innen)

Nataliya Danilova is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Aberdeen. She publishes in civil-military relations, political history of the Soviet Afghan War, international politics, and memory studies. Her first monograph, Armiia i Obshchestvo: Printsypy Vzaimodeistviia (2007), discusses civil-military interactions in the EU and Russia.