Zbigniew Wojnowski. The Near Abroad: Socialist Eastern Europe and Soviet Patriotism in Ukraine, 1956-1985
Zbigniew Wojnowski. The Near Abroad: Socialist Eastern Europe and Soviet Patriotism in Ukraine, 1956-1985

Summary/Abstract: This book by Zbigniew Wojnowski, who is currently a senior lecturer at the University of Roehampton, manages to merge two lines of research: on the one hand, the history of the transnational relations between Soviet citizens and (in this case) other Eastern European socialist countries and, on the other hand, the line of research on the cultural and value transformations of Soviet society after Stalinism that has its milestone in the famous "Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation" by Alexei Yurchak. Wojnowski’s goal is to verify the extent to which and how relations between Soviet citizens and citizens of the countries of the external empire shaped a specific form of Soviet identity.

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