1st Edition
The Eastern Front War, Myth, and Memory
Introduction
OLGA KUCHERENKO and YAN MANN
PART I
Frontlines
1. German Army Command Culture on the Eastern Front
DAVID STAHEL
2. Soviet Strategy and Operations in the Great Patriotic War: Stalin, the Stavka and the General Staff
ALEXANDER HILL
3. The Soviet Soldier at War: Discipline, Motivation, and Morale
ROGER REESE
4. Greyzone Stalingrad: Civilian Experience of the Battle
OLGA KUCHERENKO
PART II
Behind the Frontlines
5. The German Army’s Economic Policy and Occupation
JEFF RUTHERFORD
6. Settlers of the Reich: The Germans of Hitler’s Frontier
JACOB FLAWS
7. In Their Words: Soviet Women in the Ranks of Soviet Intelligence during World War II
REGINA KAZYULINA
8. Ordinary Men with Guns: Police, Partisans, and Civil War in the German-Occupied Soviet Countryside
KENNETH SLEPYAN
PART III
International Front
9. The Soviet Elephant and the British Whale: War Strategy and Struggle for Influence in Central and Eastern Europe (1941–1945)
ISKANDER E. MAGADEEV
10. Winning Friends and Influencing Allies: Soviet Public Diplomacy, 1941-1945
OLGA KUCHERENKO
11. American Anti-Stalinists in Defense of the USSR: The Socialist Workers Party, the Nazi-Soviet War, and Intransigent Revolutionism
JASON DAWSEY
PART IV
Memory Front
12. The Forgotten: Challenging Brezhnev's Cult of the Great Patriotic War
YAN MANN
13. Unwitnessed Memories or Destroy After Reading: the Survival and Suppression of Testimony in the USSR
ASIA KOVRIGINA
14. The Museum of the Defense of Leningrad and the Late-Stalinist Assault on Memory
ANYA FREE
Biography
Yan Mann is an Associate Clinical Professor of History and the Program Lead of World War II Studies Master’s degree program at Arizona State University. His research interests include the relationship between individual and collective memory, the Stalin cult, censorship, and propaganda. He is the author of “Situating Stalin in the history of the Second World War,” in the edited volume, The Memory of the Second World War in Soviet and Post‑Soviet Russia (2022) and “Manufactured Memory: Crafting the Cult of the Great Patriotic War,” in the edited volume, Terrortimes, Terrorscapes: Continuities of Space, Time, and Memory in Twentieth‑Century War and Genocide (2022).
Olga Kucherenko is a Faculty Associate at World War II Studies Master’s degree program at Arizona State University. Her research interests include conflict‑based propaganda, wartime childhood, and allied relations. She is the author of Soviet Street Children and the Second World War: Welfare and Social Control under Stalin (2016) and Little Soldiers: How Soviet Children Went to War, 1941–1945 (2011).
