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Lecture14/SeminarN

Week 6: Lecture 14: War Remembrance; Seminar N) The Political Cult of the Dead

  • Is there a link between private mourning and the ‘political cult of the dead’?
  • Is it always possible to give death in war a national meaning?
  • Did memorial culture in interwar Poland integrate or divide the nation?

 

Essential Reading

Mosse, George L., Fallen Soldiers. Reshaping the Memory of the World War (New York/Oxford, 1990), pp. 70-106 [= Chapter 5: ‘The Cult of the Fallen Soldier’]

Mick, Christoph, ‘Experiences of War and Conflicting Memories – Poles, Ukrainians and Jews in Lvov 1914-1939’, in: Dubnow Yearbook, 4 (2005), 257-278.

OR

Mick, Lemberg, Lwów, L'viv, chapter 4, pp. 209-258

Cohen, Aaron J., ‘Oh, That? Myth, Memory, and World War I in the Russian Emigration and the Soviet Union’, Slavic Review, 62 (2003), pp. 69-86.

Additional Reading

Gregory, Adrian, The Silence of Memory. Armistice Day 1919-1946 (Oxford/Providence, 1994), pp. 8-50 (= Chapter 1: ‘Lest we forget: The Invention and Reception of Armistice Day’)

Himka, John-Paul, 'Western Ukraine in the Interwar Period', The Nationalities Papers, 22 (1994), pp. 337-346.

Laqueur, Thomas W., ‘Memory and Naming in the Great War’, in Gillis, Commemorations, pp. 150-185.

King, Alex, ‘Remembering and Forgetting in the Public Memorials of the Great War’, in Forty/Küchler, The Art of Forgetting, pp. 147-169.

Merridale, Catherine, ‘War, Death, and Remembrance in Soviet Russia’, in Winter and Sivan, War and Remembrance, pp. 61-83.

Simoncini, Gabriele, 'The Polyethnic State. National Minorities in Interbellum Poland', The Nationalities Papers, 22 (1994), Supplement No. 1, pp. 5-28.

Stockdale, Melissa K., ‘United in Gratitude: Honoring Soldiers and Defining the Nation in Russia’s Great War’, Kritika, 7 (2006), pp. 459-485. (electronic resource, University Library)

Subtelny, Ukraine, pp. 425-452 [Chapter 22: ‘Western Ukraine between the Wars’]

Winter, Jay, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning. The Great War in European Cultural History (Cambridge, 1996), pp. 78-116 (= Chapter 5 ‘War Memorials and the Mourning Process’).