Making sense of war

Weiner, Amir, 1961-

Making sense of war the Second World War and the fate of the Bolshevik Revolution / [electronic resource] : Amir Weiner. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2001. - xv, 416 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-410) and index.

Machine generated contents note: PART I: DELINEATING THE BODY POLITIC -- One -- Myth and Power: The Making of a Postwar Elite -- Two -- "Living Up to the Calling of a Communist": Purification -- of the Rank and File -- PART II: DELINEATING THE BODY SOCIOETHNIC -- Three -- Excising Evil -- Four -- Memory of Excision, Excisionary Memory -- PART m: THE MAKING OF A POSTWAR SOVIET NATION -- Five -- Integral Nationalism in the Trial of War -- Six -- Peasants to Soviets, Peasants to Ukrainians -- Afterword: A Soviet World without Soviet Power, -- a Myth of War without War -- Bibliography -- Index.


Available electronically via the Internet.

0691057028 (alk. paper)


World War, 1939-1945--Psychological aspects.
World War, 1939-1945--Soviet Union.
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Soviet Union.
World War, 1939-1945--Moral and ethical aspects--Soviet Union.
World War, 1939-1945--Ukraine--Vinnyt���s���i���a��� Region.
World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda.
Propaganda, Soviet--History.
Communism--History.--Soviet Union


Vinnyt���s���i���a��� Region (Ukraine)--History--20th century.

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