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The Return to War and Violence: Case Studies on the USSR, Russia, and Yugoslavia, 1979-2014 book cover

1st Edition

The Return to War and Violence Case Studies on the USSR, Russia, and Yugoslavia, 1979-2014

Edited By Jan Claas Behrends Copyright 2017
116 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge
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This volume includes five case studies on war and the military in the USSR, Russia and Yugoslavia. It argues that the armed forces were at the core of socialist statehood and that their role and their change in late socialism and post-Communism are thus far understudied. Discussing the similarities as well as the differences between the Soviet, the Russian, and the Yugoslav case, the introduction... Read more

1. War, violence, and the military during late socialism and transition. Five case studies on the USSR, Russia, and Yugoslavia
Jan Claas Behrends

2. Dedovshchina on trial. Some evidence concerning the last Soviet generation of "sons" and "grandfathers"
Alena Maklak

3. Between "ethnocide" and "genocide": violence and Otherness in the coverage of the Afghanistan and Chechnya wars
Philipp Casula

4. "Some call us heroes, others call us killers." Experiencing violent spaces: Soviet soldiers in the Afghan War
Jan Claas Behrends

5. Dead heroes and living deserters: the Yugoslav People’s Army and the public of Valjevo, Serbia, on the verge of war 1991
Robert Lučić

6. Chechen women in war and exile: changing gender roles in the context of violence
Alice Szczepanikova

Biography

Jan C. Behrends is a research fellow at the Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF) in Potsdam. He teaches East European history at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. His areas of interested include modern dictatorships, urban studies and physical violence. His recent publications include "Races to Modernity: Metropolitan Aspirations in Eastern Europe, 1890-1940" (2014) and "Underground Publishing and the Public Sphere: Transnational Perspectives" (2014).

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