CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Soulier, Nina Valentine |
|---|---|
| Title | Reading Polina'S Diary: New Avenues In Chechen War Memorialization |
| Summary | This project is centered around Polina Zherebtsova's youth diary of the Second Chechen War. It investigates its value as a historical source in through an analysis of the text and of the publication process, in order to understand the civilian experience of war and its memorialization. Her account gives new perspectives on youth under wartime in the Chechen case. It revolved around morality collapsing because of hunger, generating lawlessness, civilian-led looting, ethnic persecution of Russian, sexual impurity in women. She observed a new "Chechenization" of the non-Chechen civilian population and increasingly "traditional" gender roles around. Girls in Chechnya followed more traditional paths in Polina's generation than in the previous, Sovietized ones, but Polina articulated a Soviet-style approach to her own life, which was centered around the war. The analysis of media reaction to the publication sheds light on the memorialization of the war in Russia, where it is widely considered as taboo, in Chechnya, and in the West. |
| Supervisor | Kovacs, Andras; Shaw, Charles |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/soulier_nina.pdf |
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