Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. INTRODUCTION Histories of the Aftermath 1
5. PART I Defining the Postwar
6. CHAPTER 1 The Persistence of “the Postwar” Germany and Poland 13
7. CHAPTER 2 Feelings in the Aftermath: Toward a History of Postwar Emotions 30
8. CHAPTER 3 In the Aftermath of Camps 49
9. PART II Public and Private Memories
10. CHAPTER 4 Nothing Is Forgotten: Individual Memory and the Myth of the Great Patriotic War 67
11. CHAPTER 5 Neither Erased nor Remembered: Soviet “Women Combatants” and Cultural Strategies of Forgetting in Soviet Russia, 1940s–1980s 83
12. CHAPTER 6 Generations as Narrative Communities: Some Private Sources of Public Memory in Postwar Germany 102
13. PART III Mass-Mediating War: How Movies Shaped Memories
14. CHAPTER 7 “When Will the Real Day Come?” War Films and Soviet Postwar Culture 123
15. CHAPTER 8 Winning the Peace at the Movies: Suffering, Loss, and Redemption in Postwar German Cinema 139
16. CHAPTER 9 Italian Cinema and the Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy 156
17. PART IV The Reconstruction of Citizenship
18. CHAPTER 10 War Orphans and Postfascist Families Kinship and Belonging after 1945 175
19. CHAPTER 11 Manners, Morality, and Civilization: Reflections on Postwar German Etiquette Books 196
20. CHAPTER 12 “We Are Building a Common Home” The Moral Economy of Citizenship in Postwar Poland 215
21. CHAPTER 13 From the “New Jerusalem” to the “Decline” of the “New Elizabethan Age” National Identity and Citizenship in Britain, 1945–56 231
22. PART V In the Shadow of the Bomb: Military Cultures
23. CHAPTER 14 The Great Tradition and the Fates of Annihilation: West German Military Culture in the Aftermath of the Second World War 251
24. CHAPTER 15 The Soviet Military Culture and the Legacy of the Second World War 269
25. CHAPTER 16 1945–1955 The Age of Total War 287
26. Select Bibliography 297
27. Notes on Contributors 303
28. Index 307