{"title":"Everyday Life, Work, and Survival on the Soviet Home Front in World War II","authors":"L. Novikova","doi":"10.1353/kri.2023.0009","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In post-Soviet decades, World War II loomed large as the central element in Russia’s historical myth of national greatness. The heroic narrative of the war has been promoted by the state and used to justify the regime’s current political aims.1 At the same time, historical research on the war, which benefited greatly from the “archival revolution,” did a lot to undermine this historical myth while presenting a much more ambivalent picture of the Soviet war effort. Not only experiences on the battlefield but increasingly life and work on the home front became the subject of critical analysis.2 While the","PeriodicalId":45639,"journal":{"name":"KRITIKA-EXPLORATIONS IN RUSSIAN AND EURASIAN HISTORY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"KRITIKA-EXPLORATIONS IN RUSSIAN AND EURASIAN HISTORY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/kri.2023.0009","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In post-Soviet decades, World War II loomed large as the central element in Russia’s historical myth of national greatness. The heroic narrative of the war has been promoted by the state and used to justify the regime’s current political aims.1 At the same time, historical research on the war, which benefited greatly from the “archival revolution,” did a lot to undermine this historical myth while presenting a much more ambivalent picture of the Soviet war effort. Not only experiences on the battlefield but increasingly life and work on the home front became the subject of critical analysis.2 While the
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A leading journal of Russian and Eurasian history and culture, Kritika is dedicated to internationalizing the field and making it relevant to a broad interdisciplinary audience. The journal regularly publishes forums, discussions, and special issues; it regularly translates important works by Russian and European scholars into English; and it publishes in every issue in-depth, lengthy review articles, review essays, and reviews of Russian, Eurasian, and European works that are rarely, if ever, reviewed in North American Russian studies journals.