World War 2 and the Soviet People : Selected Papers From the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990

Bitter Victory / John And Carol Garrard -- Russian Literature On The War And Historical Truth / Lazar Lazarev -- The Image Of Stalin In Soviet Propaganda And Public Opinion During World War 2 / John Barber -- Soviet Women At War / John Erickson -- The Other Veterans : Soviet Women's Poetry Of World War 2 / Katharine Hodgson -- Images Of The War In Painting / Musya Glants -- Story Of A War Memorial / Nina Tumarkin -- World War 2 In Russian National Consciousness : Pristavkin (1981-7) And Kondratyev (1990) / George Gibian -- New Information About The Deportation Of Ethnic Groups In The Ussr During World War 2 / Vera Tolz -- Army And Party In Conflict : Soldiers And Commissars In The Prose Of Vasily Grossman / Frank Ellis -- Recovery Of The Past And Struggle For The Future : Vasil' Bykaw's Recent War Fiction / Arnold Mcmillin -- The Katyn Massacre And The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising In The Soviet-nazi Propaganda War / Ewa M. Thompson -- Winston Churchill And The Soviet Union, 1939-45 / Martin Gilbert. Edited By John Garrard And Carol Garrard. Selected Papers From The Fourth World Congress For Soviet And East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990. Includes Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xxix Bitter Victory....Pages 1-10 Russian Literature on the War and Historical Truth....Pages 28-37 The Image of Stalin in Soviet Propaganda and Public Opinion during World War 2....Pages 38-49 Soviet Women at War....Pages 50-76 The Other Veterans: Soviet Women’s Poetry of World War 2....Pages 77-97 Images of the War in Painting....Pages 98-124 Story of a War Memorial....Pages 125-146 World War 2 in Russian National Consciousness: Pristavkin (1981–7) and Kondratyev (1990)....Pages 147-160 New Information about the Deportation of Ethnic Groups in the USSR during World War 2....Pages 161-179 Army and Party in Conflict: Soldiers and Commissars in the Prose of Vasily Grossman....Pages 180-201 Recovery of the Past and Struggle for the Future: Vasil’ Bykaw’s Recent War Fiction....Pages 202-212 The Katyn Massacre and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in the Soviet- Nazi Propaganda War....Pages 213-233 Winston Churchill and the Soviet Union, 1939-45....Pages 234-260 Back Matter....Pages 261-268 A guidebook for the Western reader to World War II as it was experienced and remembered by the Soviet people. The collapse of communism has meant that Soviet archives have finally opened. Using new research, scholars examine previously undertreated aspects of the conflict.