Emilia Koustova (Dir.), Combattre, Survivre, Témoigner. Expériences soviétiques de la Seconde Guerre mondiale

Abstract

Despite being portrayed as a “people’s war,” the Second World War’s impact on the lives of millions of citizens was downplayed by the postwar Soviet government until the Brezhnev years, when a cult of the war emerged that prized heroic narratives and uncritical accounts of their experiences. The present volume constitutes a welcome contribution to the historiography of the Soviet experience of the Second World War, surveying the kinds of archival sources available to the historian seeking to ...