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Victory Banner Over the Reichstag: Film, Document, and Ritual in Russia’s Contested Memory of World War II (Russian and East European Studies)
Jeremy Hicks
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Description for Victory Banner Over the Reichstag: Film, Document, and Ritual in Russia’s Contested Memory of World War II (Russian and East European Studies)
Hardcover.
One of the iconic images of WWII was a Russian soldier raising a red flag atop the ruins of the German Reichstag. Award-winning author Hicks explores how the Soviets, and then Putin, have used this image and the banner itself to build a remarkably powerful mythology of Russian greatness.
One of the iconic images of WWII was a Russian soldier raising a red flag atop the ruins of the German Reichstag. Award-winning author Hicks explores how the Soviets, and then Putin, have used this image and the banner itself to build a remarkably powerful mythology of Russian greatness.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822946502
SKU
V9780822946502
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99-46
About Jeremy Hicks
Jeremy Hicks is senior lecturer in the School of Languages, Linguistics, and Film at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of Mikhail Zoshchenko and the Poetics of Skaz and Dziga Vertov: Defining Documentary Film.
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