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Rewriting Betrayal: The Political Memory Of Andrei Vlasov And His Russian Liberation Army, Christian N. Adams Feb 2026

Rewriting Betrayal: The Political Memory Of Andrei Vlasov And His Russian Liberation Army, Christian N. Adams

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

This study examines the evolving historiography of Andrei Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Army (ROA) from the end of World War II to the post-Soviet era. Drawing on Soviet, émigré, and Western sources, it traces how interpretations of Vlasov’s defection reflected shifting moral and political frameworks in Russia’s collective memory. The analysis demonstrates that portrayals of Vlasov, from Stalinist condemnations to post-Soviet reappraisals, mirror the state’s changing relationship to patriotism, legitimacy, and dissent. By comparing Cold War scholarship with contemporary Russian debates, this paper argues that the Vlasov question endures not because of mere intrigue, but because it embodies the …


Battle For The People: Ideological Conflict Between Soviet Partisans, The German Military, And Ukrainian Nationalists In Nazi-Occupied Ukraine, David L. Heim Apr 2016

Battle For The People: Ideological Conflict Between Soviet Partisans, The German Military, And Ukrainian Nationalists In Nazi-Occupied Ukraine, David L. Heim

Student Publications

Soviet historiography discusses the People’s War during the Second World War, the idea that all of the Soviet people rallied to the cause and fought off the Nazi invaders, but this is far from the truth. Within the western borderlands of the Soviet Union multiple conflicting groups fought for control of and support from the people. This was especially true in Ukraine where the German Army, Soviet Partisans and Ukrainian nationalists all fought ‘for the people’ and for their own ideologies. This paper is an attempt to discuss the ideological conflict between the Nazis, the Soviets, and the Ukrainian nationalists, …


Crimean Tatars From Mass Deportation To Hardships In Occupied Crimea, Karina Korostelina May 2015

Crimean Tatars From Mass Deportation To Hardships In Occupied Crimea, Karina Korostelina

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

The article begins with a description of the deportation of Crimean Tatars. It provides a brief review of the Nazi Occupation of Crimea, examines the negative images of Crimean Tatars published in Soviet newspapers between 1941-1943 and the explicit rationale given by the Soviet authorities for the deportation of Crimean Tatars, and reviews the mitigation of hostilities against Tatars in the years following the war. The article continues with accounts of the attempts to repatriate Crimean Tatars after 1989 and the discriminative policies against the returning people. The conclusion of the article describes current hardships experienced by Tatars in occupied …


Stalin's Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, And Alliance Politics, 1941–1945 (Book Review), David Brandenberger Jan 2005

Stalin's Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, And Alliance Politics, 1941–1945 (Book Review), David Brandenberger

History Faculty Publications

The Kremlin tête-à-tête and the iconoclastic revival of the Russian Orthodox Church that followed have long intrigued those writing about ideological change in the USSR under Stalin. Many believe that the concessions to the church were an exigency of war designed to increase the party’s ability to rally support from among even the most reluctant members of Soviet society. Others consider the revival of the church to have been part of a more thoroughgoing Russiªcation of the USSR in the mid- to late 1930s that rehabilitated aspects of the Russian national past for mobilizational purposes well before 1941. In Stalin’s …


Resistance Is The Lesson: The Meaning Of The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Morris U. Schappes Jan 1947

Resistance Is The Lesson: The Meaning Of The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Morris U. Schappes

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


Speech Delivered By J.V. Stalin At A Meeting Of Voters Of The Stalin Electoral Area Of Moscow, February 9, 1946, Joseph Stalin Jan 1946

Speech Delivered By J.V. Stalin At A Meeting Of Voters Of The Stalin Electoral Area Of Moscow, February 9, 1946, Joseph Stalin

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


The Case Of The 16 Poles And The Plot For War On The U. S. S. R. As Told In Official Documents, National Council Of American-Soviet Friendship Jan 1945

The Case Of The 16 Poles And The Plot For War On The U. S. S. R. As Told In Official Documents, National Council Of American-Soviet Friendship

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


Poland, Fritz August Voight Jan 1944

Poland, Fritz August Voight

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


Soviet Democracy And The War, William Z. Foster Jan 1943

Soviet Democracy And The War, William Z. Foster

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


Soviet Russia Versus Nazi Germany: A Study In Contrasts, Corliss Lamont Jan 1942

Soviet Russia Versus Nazi Germany: A Study In Contrasts, Corliss Lamont

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


The Soviet People At War, Alvah Cecil Bessie Jan 1942

The Soviet People At War, Alvah Cecil Bessie

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


Turning Point For The World, R. Palme Dutt Jan 1941

Turning Point For The World, R. Palme Dutt

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


The Soviet Union, Friend And Ally Of The American People, William Z. Foster Jan 1941

The Soviet Union, Friend And Ally Of The American People, William Z. Foster

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.