ZfL INFO 65/2024: Appropriating History. The Soviet Past in Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian Popular Culture
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Matthias Schwartz, Nina Weller (ed./eds.)
Appropriating History
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Table of contents
- Introduction: Popular Culture and History in Post-Soviet Nation States
Matthias Schwartz and Nina Weller | 11–26
I. Places of Longing: Yesterday’s Tales, Melodramatic Lives and Astonishing Worlds
- More than Nostalgia. Late Socialism in Contemporary Russian Television Series
Mark Lipovetsky | 29–44 - Drawn History. Ukrainian Graphic Fiction about National History
Svitlana Pidoprygora | 45–68 - Narrating Russia’s Multi-Ethnic Past. The Historical Novels of Guzel Yakhina
Eva Binder | 69–88 - The Zone as a Place of Repentance and Retreat. Chernobyl in Belarusian Films of the 1990s and 2000s
Olga Romanova | 89–108
II. Combat Zones: War Heroes, Resistance Fighters and Joyful Partisans
- Alternative Versions of the Past and the Future. Soviet and Post-Soviet Pop Literature
Maria Galina and Ilya Kukulin | 111–131 - Ludic Epistemologies and Alternate Histories. The Soviet Past in Role-Playing Games
Daniil Leiderman | 133–153 - Partisan, Anti-Partisan, pARTisan, Party-Zan, Cyberpartisan. On the Popularity of Partisanhood in Belarusian Culture
Nina Weller | 155–185 - Mummified Subversion. Reconstructions of Soviet Rock Underground in Contemporary Russian Cinema
Roman Dubasevych | 187–204
III. Sites of Trauma: Horror Fantasies, Weird Sceneries and Realms of Terror
- Dealing with Cultural Traumas. Popular Representations of the Past in Contemporary Belarusian Prose
Lidia Martinovich | 207–223 - Nostalgia for Trauma. Russian Prize Literature and the Soviet Past
Valery Vyugin | 225–239 - The Affective Landscapes of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Domesticating Nuclear Disaster in a Video Game
Oleksandr Zabirko | 241–263 - Come and See, Once Again. A Russian Television Series on the Seventh Symphony in Defeated Leningrad
Matthias Schwartz | 265–290
Epilogue
- Public History, Popular Culture, and the Belarusian Experience in a Comparative Perspective. A Conversation
Aliaksei Bratachkin in conversation with the editors | 293–308
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