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.
Introduction Frank Biess I. Defining the Postwar Chapter 1. The Persistence of the Postwar : Germany and Poland Norman Naimark Chapter 2. Feelings in the Aftermath: Toward a History of Postwar Emotions Frank Biess Chapter 3. In the Aftermath of Camps Samuel Moyn II. Public and Private Memories Chapter 4. Nothing Is Forgotten: Individual Memory and the Myth of the Great Patriotic War Lisa Kirschenbaum Chapter 5. Erased nor Remembered: Soviet Women Combatants and Cultural Strategies of Forgetting In Soviet Russia, 1940s-1980s Anna Krylova Chapter 6. Generations as Narrative Communities: On the Private Sources of Official Cultures of Remembrance in Postwar Germany Dorothee Wierling III. Mass-Mediating War: How Movies Shaped Memories Chapter 7. 'When Will the Real Day Come?' War Films and Soviet Postwar Culture Denise Youngblood Chapter 8. Winning the Peace at the Movies: Suffering, Loss, and Redemption in Postwar German Cinema Robert Moeller Chapter 9. Italian Cinema and the Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy Ruth Ben-Ghiat IV. The Reconstruction of Citizenship Chapter 10. War Orphans and Post-Fascist Families: Kinship and Belonging after 1945 Heide Fehrenbach Chapter 11. Manners, Morality and Civilization: Reflections on Postwar German Etiquette Books Paul Betts Chapter 12. From the New Jerusalem to the 'Decline' of the New Elizabethan Age: National Identity and Citizenship: Britain, 1945-56 Sonya Rose Chapter 13. We are Building a Common Home: The Moral Economy of Citizenship in Postwar Poland Katherine Lebow V. In the Shadow of the Bomb: Military Cultures Chapter 14. The Great Tradition and the Fates of Annihilation - West German Military Culture in the Aftermath of the Second World War Klaus Naumann Chapter 15. Soviet Military Culture and the Legacy of the Second World War Mikhail Tsypkin Chapter 16. 1945-1955: The Age of Total War Pieter Lagrou Notes on Contributors Index
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