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Book Review: Catherine Merridale. Ivan’s War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006
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This article is published in Saber and Scroll.The article was published on 2015-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 9 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union.read more
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Vectors of traumatic memories and mass-mediated representations of the ‘last’ Nazi trial of John Demjanjuk
TL;DR: In this article, an ideological critique of key vectors of memory that could have circulated during the Munich trial of John Demjanjuk is presented, arguing that the binary choices that were posed stood in the way of more comprehensive and nuanced studies of Stalinism, Nazi and collaborator culpability.
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Russian Border Guards’ Self-Writing Online: Breaking Down the Soviet Cult of Heroism?
TL;DR: The authors examined the meanings of selected Russian border guards' online writing, with contextualisation as to how they challenge the heromyth established in the Soviet collective "hero-narration" and their ability to generate new online identities.
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Holocaust and WWII: Jews in the Red Army
TL;DR: The authors focused on the role of Jews in the Red Army during World War II and during WWII in particular, and found that about 500,000 Jews served in the combined Allied Forces during the war.
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Philomela's Legacy: Rape, the Second World War, and the Ethics of Reading
TL;DR: The authors discuss the ethical quandaries of the wartime rape of German women by Russian soldiers during the last months of the war and argue that there is a legacy of violence in both silence and in writing, but there is also an ethics of reading that allows one to pay tribute to the victims' suffering even as one negotiates and recontextualizes their stories.
Rape, the Second World War, and the Ethics of Reading
TL;DR: The authors discuss the ethical quandaries of the wartime rape of German women by Russian soldiers during the last months of the war and argue that there is a legacy of violence in both silence and in writing, but there is also an ethics of reading that allows one to pay tribute to the victims' suffering even as one negotiates and recontextualizes their stories.