Journal of Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society Vol. 1, No. 2 (2015)

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by  Ackermann, Felix;Blacker, Uilleam;Fedor, Julie;Galbas, Michael

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Vol. 1, No. 2 (2015)
Double Special Issue
Back from Afghanistan:
The Experiences of Soviet Afghan War Veterans
Martyrdom and Memory in Eastern Europe
JSPPS 1:2 (2015)
GENERAL EDITOR AND ISSUE EDITOR‐IN‐CHIEF:
Julie Fedor, University of Melbourne
CONSULTING EDITOR:
Andreas Umland, Institute for Euro‐Atlantic Cooperation, Kyiv
GUEST EDITORS:
Felix Ackermann, European Humanities University, Vilnius
Uilleam Blacker, University College London
Michael Galbas, University of Konstanz
JSPPS EDITORIAL TEAM
General Editor:
Julie Fedor, University of Melbourne
Editors:
Samuel Greene, King's College London
André Härtel, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
Andrey Makarychev, University of Tartu
Consulting Editor:
Andreas Umland, Institute for Euro‐Atlantic Cooperation, Kyiv

JSPPS ADVISORY BOARD

Hannes Adomeit, College of Europe, Natolin Jeffrey Kopstein, University of Toronto
Timofey Agarin, Queen's University, Belfast Hrant Kostanyan, Centre for European Policy Studies
Mikhail Alexseev, San Diego State University, CA Paul Kubicek, Oakland University, MI
Catherine Andreyev, University of Oxford Walter Laqueur, Georgetown University, DC
Anne Applebaum, The Legatum Institute, London Marlene Laruelle, George Washington University, DC
Anders Åslund, Peterson Inst. for International Economics Carol Leonard, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Margarita Balmaceda, Seton Hall University, NJ Leonid Luks, The Catholic University of Eichstaett‐Ingolstadt
Harley Balzer, Georgetown University, DC Luke March, University of Edinburgh
John Barber, University of Cambridge Mykhailo Minakov, Kyiv‐Mohyla Academy
Timm Beichelt, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) Olga Onuch, University of Manchester
Mark R. Beissinger, Princeton University, NJ Mitchell Orenstein, Northeastern University, MA
Thomas Bohn, Justus Liebig University, Giessen Nikolay Petrov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Giovanna Brogi, University of Milan Andriy Portnov, Humboldt University, Berlin
Paul Chaisty, University of Oxford Serhii Plokhii, Harvard University, MA
Vitaly Chernetsky, University of Kansas, Lawrence Alina Polyakova, Atlantic Council, DC
Ariel Cohen, Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, MD Maria Popova, McGill University, Montreal
Timothy J. Colton, Harvard University, MA Alex Pravda, University of Oxford
Peter J.S. Duncan, University College London Mykola Riabchuk, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kyiv
John B. Dunlop, Stanford University, CA Per Anders Rudling, Lund University
Gerald M. Easter, Boston College, MA Ellen Rutten, University of Amsterdam
Alexander Etkind, European University Institute, Florence Jutta Scherrer, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
M. Steven Fish, University of California at Berkeley Dieter Segert, University of Vienna
Gasan Gusejnov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow Anton Shekhovtsov, The Legatum Institute, London
Nikolas K. Gvosdev, U.S. Naval War College, RI Oxana Shevel, Tufts University, MA
Michael Hagemeister, Ruhr University, Bochum Stephen Shulman, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Stephen E. Hanson, College of William & Mary, VA Valerie Sperling, Clark University, MA
Olexiy Haran, Kyiv‐Mohyla Academy Susan Stewart, SWP, Berlin
Nicolas Hayoz, University of Fribourg Lisa M. Sundstrom, University of British Columbia
Andreas Heinemann‐Grüder, University of Bonn Mark Tauger, West Virginia University, Morgantown
Stephen Hutchings, University of Manchester, UK Vera Tolz‐Zilitinkevic, University of Manchester
Stefani Hoffman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Amir Weiner, Stanford University
Mikhail Ilyin, Higher School of Economics, Moscow Sarah Whitmore, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Wilfried Jilge, University of Basel Andrew Wilson, University College London
Markku Kangaspuro, University of Helsinki Christian Wipperfürth, DGAP, Berlin
Adrian Karatnycky, Atlantic Council, New York Andreas Wittkowsky, ZIF, Berlin
Andrei Kazantsev, MGIMO, Moscow Jan Zielonka, University of Oxford

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Cover picture: © Anna Reich. Jonas Vaitkūnas in his bedroom. Vilnius, Lithuania.

Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
Vol. 1, No. 2 (2015)
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CONTENTS
SPECIAL ISSUE: BACK FROM AFGHANISTAN
Back from Afghanistan: Experiences of Soviet Afghan War
Veterans in Transnational Perspective
FELIX ACKERMANN AND MICHAEL GALBAS ............................................. 1
The Varied Reintegration of Afghan War Veterans in Their
Home Society
YAACOV RO’I ......................................................................................... 19
A Fragile Movement: Afghan War Veterans and the Soviet Collapse
in Tajikistan, 1979–92
MARKUS GÖRANSSON .......................................................................... 57
“Our Pain and Our Glory”: Strategies of Legitimization and
Functionalization of the Soviet–Afghan War in the
Russian Federation
MICHAEL GALBAS .................................................................................. 91
Veterans of the Soviet–Afghan War and the Ukrainian Nation-
Building Project: From Perestroika to the Maidan and the War in
the Donbas
IRYNA SKLOKINA ................................................................................. 133
Post-Soviet Legacies of Afghanistan: A Comparative Perspective
JAN C. BEHRENDS ............................................................................... 169
Faces of the Lithuanian Afghanai
ANNA REICH ....................................................................................... 187
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SPECIAL ISSUE: MARTYRDOM AND MEMORY IN EASTERN EUROPE
Soviet and Post-Soviet Varieties of Martyrdom and Memory
UILLEAM BLACKER AND JULIE FEDOR .................................................. 197
War and Martyrdom in the Twentieth Century and After
JAY WINTER ........................................................................................ 217
Martyrdom, Spectacle, and Public Space in Ukraine: Ukraine’s
National Martyrology from Shevchenko to the Maidan
UILLEAM BLACKER ............................................................................. 257
The Eternal Martyr: Karen Shakhnazarov’s White Tiger as a
Cinematic Reflection on Russian Martyrdom
SANDER BROUWER ............................................................................. 293
In Search of a Modern Mnemonic Narrative of Communism:
Russia’s Mnemopolitical Mimesis during the Medvedev Presidency
MARIA MÄLKSOO ................................................................................ 317
Holodomor, Amnesia, and Memory-(Re)Making in Post-War
Ukrainian Literature and Film
IRYNA STAROVOYT .............................................................................. 341
Overcoming Hegemonic Martyrdom: The Afterlife of Khatyn in
Belarusian Memory
SIMON LEWIS ..................................................................................... 367
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CONFERENCE REPORT
THE POLITICAL CULT OF THE DEAD IN UKRAINE (MUNICH, JULY 2015)
MICHAEL STÖRK ................................................................................ 403
REVIEW ESSAYS: DE-MYTHOLOGIZING BANDERA
De-Mythologizing Bandera: Towards a Scholarly History of the
Ukrainian Nationalist Movement
OLEKSANDR ZAITSEV ........................................................................... 411

Bandera’s Tempting Shadow: The Problematic History of
Ukrainian Radical Nationalism in the Wake of the Maidan
ANDRÉ HÄRTEL ................................................................................... 421

From Staryi Uhryniv to Munich: The First Scholarly Biography of
Stepan Bandera
YURI RADCHENKO .............................................................................. 429

REVIEWS
Nataliya Danilova, The Politics of War Commemoration in the UK
and Russia
KAREN PETRONE ................................................................................ 459

Rodric Braithwaite, Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979–89
PHILIPP CASULA ........................................................................................................... 461

E. S. Seniavskaia, Istoriia voin Rossii XX veka v chelovecheskom
izmerenii: problemy voenno-istoricheskoi antropologii i psikhologii.
Kurs lektsii
ELENA ROZHDESTVENSKAYA .............................................................. 467

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