Histories of the aftermath : the legacies of the Second World War in Europe / edited by Frank Biess and Robert G. Moeller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Biess, Frank, 1966-

Moeller, Robert G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Europe.

Reconstruction (1939-1951).

World War, 1939-1945--Influence.

World War, 1939-1945.

Collective memory--Europe--History--20th century.

Collective memory.

Memory--Social aspects--Europe--History--20th century.

Memory.

World War, 1939-1945--Motion pictures and the war.

Group identity--Europe--History--20th century.

Group identity.

Citizenship--Europe--History--20th century.

Citizenship.

Military art and science--Europe--History--20th century.

Military art and science.

Europe--History--1945-.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 321 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1945, Europeans confronted a legacy of mass destruction and death: millions of families had lost their homes and livelihoods; millions of men in uniform had lost their lives; and millions more had been displaced by the war's destruction, and the genocidal policies of the Nazi regime. From a range of methodological historical perspectives--military, cultural, and social, to film and gender and sexuality studies--this volume explores how Europeans came to terms with these multiple pasts. With a focus on distinctive national experiences in both Eastern and Western Europe, it illuminates how postwar stabilization coexisted with persistent insecurities, injuries, and trauma.

Contents:

Introduction / Frank Biess

Defining the postwar

The persistence of "the postwar" : Germany and Poland / Norman M. Naimark

Feelings in the aftermath : toward a history of postwar emotions / Frank Biess

In the aftermath of camps / Samuel Moyn

Public and private memories

Nothing is forgotten : individual memory and the myth of the Great Patriotic War / Lisa A. Kirschenbaum

Neither erased nor remembered : Soviet "women combatants" and cultural strategies of forgetting in Soviet Russia, 1940s-1980s / Anna Krylova

Generations as narrative communities : on the private sources of official cultures of remembrance in postwar Germany / Dorothee Wierling

Mass-mediating war : how movies shaped memories

"When will the real day come?" War films and Soviet postwar culture

Denise Youngblood

"Winning the peace" at the movies : suffering, loss, and redemption in postwar German cinema / Robert G. Moeller

Italian cinema and the transition from dictatorship to democracy / Ruth Ben-Ghiat

The reconstruction of citizenship

War orphans and postfascist families : kinship and belonging after 1945 / Heide Fehrenbach

Manners, morality, and civilization : reflections on postwar German etiquette books / Paul Betts

From the "New Jerusalem" to the "decline" of the "New Elizabethan Age" : national identity and citizenship in Britain, 1945-56 / Sonya O. Rose

"We are building a common home" : the moral economy of citizenship in postwar Poland / Katherine Lebow

In the shadow of the bomb : military cultures

The great tradition and the fates of annihilation : West German military culture in the aftermath of the Second World War / Klaus Naumann

Soviet military culture and the legacy of the Second World War / Mikhail Tsypkin

1945-1955 : the age of total war / Pieter Lagrou.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781845459987 (electronic book)

9781845459987

1845459989

OCLC:

727649482