Description:
A study of the popular appeal of the cult of Soviet victory in World War II and the collective incapacity to reckon with the Soviet state terror in Putin's Russia. Illustrates how appeals to family memory energize habits of remembrance acquired through exposure to films, architecture, rituals, and digital archives.
Brief description: Ekaterina V. Haskins is Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at The Pennsylvania State University. Her award-winning scholarship includes, most recently, Popular Memories: Commemoration, Participatory Culture, and Democratic Citizenship.
Review Quotes:
"Haskins's innovative theoretical approach to ambient memory yields important insights into contemporary Russia and the way Stalinism and nationalism have returned to the fore. Remembering the War, Forgetting the Terror is an important scholarly work and an intervention into current global trends."
--Kendall R. Phillips, editor of Framing Public Memory