Table of Contents:
  • Revisiting the future of the Soviet past and the memory of Stalinist repression / Nanci Adler and Anton Weiss-Wendt
  • Part I: The present memory of the past. Presentism, politicization of history, and the new role of the historian in Russia / Ivan Kurilla
  • Secondhand history : outsourcing Russia's past to Kremlin proxies / Anton Weiss-Wendt
  • The Soviet past and the 1945 victory cult as civil religion in contemporary Russia / Nikita Petrov
  • Russia as a bulwark against antisemitism and Holocaust denial : the second World War according to Moscow / Kiril Feferman
  • Part II: Museums, pop culture, and other memory battlegrounds. Keeping the past in the past : the attack on the Perm 36 Gulag Museum and Russian historical memory of Soviet repression / Steven A. Barnes
  • Known and unknown soldiers : remembering Russia's fallen in the Great Patriotic War / Johanna Dahlin
  • Fighters of the invisible front : reimaging the aftermath of the Great Patriotic War in recent Russian television series / Boris Noordenbos
  • War, cinema, and the politics of memory in Putin 2.0 culture / Stephen M. Norris
  • Part III: Remembering and framing the Soviet past beyond Russia's borders. The 2014 Russian memory law in European context / Nikolay Koposov
  • Tenacious pasts : geopolitics and the Polish-Russian group on difficult matters / George Soroka
  • The 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia : return to the Soviet interpretation / Štěpán Černoušek.