Bringing Stalin Back In: Memory Politics and the Creation of a Useable Past in Putin’s Russia

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Notes

1. Todd H. Nelson, Bringing Stalin Back In: Memory Politics and the Creation of a Useable Past in Putin’s Russia (New York: Lexington Books, 2019).

2. Ibid., 8–9 and 30.

3. Vladimir Bukovsky, Judgment in Moscow: Soviet Crimes and Western Complicity, trans. Alyona Kojevnikov, English ed. prepared by Paul Boutin (San Bernardino: Ninth of November Press, 2019).

4. Nelson, Bringing Stalin Back In, 9.

5. Among the numerous works dealing with this that readily come to mind are: Robert Conquest, The Great Terror: A Reassessment (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990); Anne Applebaum, GULAG: A History (New York: Anchor Books, 2003); Stephen Kotkin, Stalin, vol. 1: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928 (New York: Penguin Press, 2014); Anne Applebaum, Red Famine: Stalin’s war on Ukraine (New York: Doubleday, 2017); and Stephen Kotkin, Stalin, vol. 2: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941 (New York: Penguin Press, 2017).

6. Nelson, Bringing Stalin Back In, 9.

7. Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2018), 190.

8. Nelson, Bringing Stalin Back In, 26.

9. “Russian ‘Soft Memory’ Part I: Crafting the Stalinist Narrative in Russian Society-at-Large,” chap. 2 in Ibid., 25–47.

10. Quoted in Ibid., 10.

11. “Russian ‘Soft Memory’ Part II: The Education Sphere and the Presentation of Stalinism,” chap. 3 in Ibid., 49–74.

12. “’Hard’ Memory: Comparing Memorialization of the Great Patriotic War and the Stalinist Repressions,” chap. 4 in Ibid., 75–105.

13. “Bringing It All Together: Complex Co-optation, Civil Society, and Access to discourse on the Soviet Period,” chap. 5 in Ibid., 107–129.

14. Ibid., 3.

15. “Conclusion: Ghosts of the Past in the Russian Present,” chap. 6 in Ibid., 131–142.