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- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Copyright
- © 2022 Berghahn Books
- ISSN
- 1933-2882
- eISSN
- 1933-2890
- DOI
- 10.3167/asp.2017.110106
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
In this article, I detail how archival finds helped me develop questions on World War II martyr heroes and their role in Soviet culture and Russian collective memory. I consider how one might approach silences, read discrepancies in archival holdings, and extrapolate meaning from various kinds of documents. Considering that the Russian State Archive of Sociopolitical History Komsomol archive allows one to study the evolution of gender via the continuous reshaping of feminine and masculine ideals for Soviet youth, I discuss how the archive might open up new research areas and prompt additional questions for gender historians, and lead one to reconsider power and authority in the Soviet past.
Journal
Aspasia – Berghahn Books
Published: Mar 1, 2017
Keywords: archives; gender; Zoia Kosmodemianskaia; RGASPI; war heroes; World War II