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Allied Intervention From Russia’s Perspective: Modern-Day Interpretations / Kurilla, Ivan

Kurilla, Ivan	Journal Article
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The narrative of the foreign intervention in the Russian Civil War changed its meaning for the Soviet and post-Soviet Russian scholars and ideologues several times. Stalin put all the blame for starting Civil War on the intervention, with emphasis on the British leading role. During Cold War, Soviet propagandists highlighted the role of the US Expeditionary forces. In the 1990s the lifting of ideological control permitted new research of the Civil War and intervention written from multiple points of view to emerge. However, after 2000 increasingly anti-revolutionary and anti-Western policies of the Russian government facilitated the return of the early Soviet narrative into semi-official interpretations: The West again was to blame for igniting the Russian Revolution and Civil War. Nevertheless, contemporary Russia provides professional historians relatively more freedom than the USSR did. They continue scholarly research leading to a better understanding the Russian Civil War and the complexity of the domestic and foreign forces’ motives and actions.

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Foreign Intervention ; Allied Intervention ; Russia’s Perspective

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Reusing Soviet History Books: the Role of World War II in Russian Domestic Politics and Academia / Kurilla, Ivan

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World War II is the major historical event of the last century that still resonates with Russians’ emotions due to the enormous sacrifice of the past generation and the main victory over Nazism it achieved. This article outlines the ways and steps made by the current political regime in Russia to appropriate War memory for its political purposes. It demonstrates how and for what reasons Putin’s propaganda went from the corrections of the war narrative to the retrenchment at the Soviet-time positions in the history wars with Russia’s neighbors, and lists the legislative measures restricting alternative visions of the history of the war. The article also analyses the negative impact of this historical politics on the Russian academia and society.

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Soviet History Books ; Role of World War II ; Russian Domestic Politics

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World war Ii In European memory / Kurilla, Ivan

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The past decade has seen a dramatic change in the assessment of World War II in Europe. European discourse on this issue increasingly resembles a well-orchestrated attack against Russia, launched with the aim of either humiliating the Russian people or providing an excuse to oust the country from the group of leading global powers. A closer look at this shift reveals that it is largely caused by internal political developments that underlie the process of building a new identity. An insight into these processes, which gained momentum with the breakup of the global socialist system and the Soviet Union, will enable Russia to devise an adequate policy towards this issue of great concern in the country.

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European Identity ; European Memory ; World War II ; Post-War World Order ; WW ii Narrative ; Russia's Struggle

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