War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus

1. Introduction: War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, by Julie Fedor, Simon M. Lewis and Tatiana Zhurzhenko.- Part I. Nation-Building and Memories of World War II.- 2. Political Uses of the Great Patriotic War in Post-Soviet Russia from Yeltsin to Putin, by Olga Malinova.- 3. "Unhappy is the Person who has no Motherland": National Ideology and History Writing in Lukashenka's Belarus, by Per Anders Rudling.- 4. Reclaiming the Past, Confronting the Past: OUN-UPA Memory Politics and Nation-Building in Ukraine (1991-2016), by Yuliya Yurchuk.- Part II. In Stalin's Shadow.- 5. From the Trauma of Stalinism to the Triumph of Stalingrad: The Toponymic Dispute over Volgograd, by Markku Kangaspuro and Jussi Lassila.- 6. When Stalin Lost His Head: World War II and Memory Wars in Contemporary Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy.- 7. "We Should be Proud not Sorry": Neo-Stalinist Literature in Contemporary Russia, by Philipp Chapkovski.- Part III. New Agents and Communities of Memory.- 8. Successors to the Great Victory: Afghan Veterans in Post-Soviet Belarus, by Felix Ackermann.- 9. Generational Memory and the Post-Soviet Welfare State: Institutionalizing the "Children of War" in Post-Soviet Russia, by Tatiana Zhurzhenko.- 10. Ostarbeiters of the Third Reich in Ukrainian and European Public Discourses: Restitution, Recognition, Commemoration, by Gelinada Grinchenko.- Part IV. Old/New Narratives and Myths.- 11. Memory, Kinship, and Mobilization of the Dead: the Russian State and the "Immortal Regiment" Movement, by Julie Fedor.- 12. The Holocaust in the Public Discourse of Post-Soviet Ukraine, by Andriy Portnov.- 13. The "Partisan Republic": Colonial Myths and Memory Wars in Belarus, by Simon M. Lewis.- Part V. Local Cases.-14. Great Patriotic War Memory in Sevastopol: Making Sense of Suffering in the "City of Military Glory", by Judy Brown.- 15. On Victims and Heroes: (Re)assembling World War II Memory in Border City of Narva, by Elena Nikiforova.- 16. War Memorials in Karelia: A Place of Sorrow or Glory?, by Aleksandr V. Antoshchenko, Irina S. Shtykova, and Valentina V. Volokhova.