标题：Iuri Mukhin, Po povestke i po prizyvu – nekadrovye soldaty Velikoi Otechestvennoi [Mobilised and drafted – unskilled soldiers of the Great Patriotic War] [
期刊名称：The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies
印刷版ISSN：1769-7069
出版年度：2011
卷号：2011
期号：12
出版社：Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche sur les Sociétés et les Institutions Post-Soviétiques
摘要：The book consists of an introduction and four stories by different authors. Two are war memories in the strict sense of the word. One officer and one soldier tell the everyday story of the war, highlighting all of its difficulties. The other two stories are life tales—the first is that of a young woman who voluntarily enlisted and later became a staunched communist; the second is that of a model Ukrainian workman who was called into service to serve the flag. Those two life tales cover a period that extends up until today. This very long period of time coupled with the tales’ hagiographic and didactic character overshadow the period of the war. The life tales are thereby transformed into two nostalgic evocations, of a period that was both painful and glorious, and of the Soviet people, both of which are turned into myths. These two tales are situated at the beginning and at the end of the book, encompassing the two war memories and thereby laying the ground for the reader’s reception of them, who finds himself caught within somewhat of an ideological vice. Using such a device allows book-maker Iuri Mukhin to establish, sometimes explicitly and sometimes implicitly, an absolute analogy between simple Soviet citizen, heroic soldier and true communist; between true communist and the Communist party; between the Communist party and Stalin. This series of syllogisms leads to one further analogy—Stalin, simple soldier and heroic soldier. On top of the historical value found in Nevsky’s and Blizniuk’s direct war memories, the book also allows us to understand the foundations of neo-Stalinism and how this new myth is diffused. The substance of the book therefore appears to be much more than a simple answer to the original question about its subject-matter.
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