What is it about?
The article explores how a commemorative practice to mark Victory day, which emerged as a grassroots initiative, was appropriated by the establishment in Russia and how it was transformed in the course of its expansion and its adoption in Bulgaria.
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Why is it important?
The article offers an insight into the politics of memory in Russia and Bulgaria, and how they can be instrumentalized by various political actors in their interests. Such insights can add to the understanding of the political uses of the WWII memory, including in Russia's invasion in Ukraine.
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The article came out only a few months before Russia's invasion in Ukraine. While working on it, I was puzzled and alarmed to see how grassroots memory feeds into grassroots aggression.
Daniela Koleva
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This page is a summary of: The Immortal Regiment and its glocalisation: Reformatting Victory Day in Bulgaria, Memory Studies, August 2021, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/17506980211037280.
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