The “Wild Nineties”: Youth Engagement, Memory and Continuities between Yeltsin’s and Putin’s Russia

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents IX
4. List of Figures XIII
5. List of Tables XV
6. Transmitting the Past to Young Minds 1
7. Part I: Regional Perspectives
8. A Former Soviet Republic? Historical Perspectives on Belarus 27
9. Without Roots? The Historical Realm of Young Belarusians 41
10. “Let’s be Belarusians!” On the Reappropriation of Belarusian History in Popular Culture 59
11. The “Wild Nineties”: Youth Engagement, Memory and Continuities between Yeltsin’s and Putin’s Russia 75
12. Russian Youth as Subject and Object of the 1990s “Memory War” 85
13. “Dear Young Warriors”: Memories of Sacrifice, Debt and Youth Militarisation in Yeltsin’s Russia 99
14. The Making of a Young Martyr: Discursive Legacies of the Turkish “Youth Myth” in the Afterlife of Deniz Gezmiş 113
15. Youth au Féminin: Gendering Activist Memory in Turkey 127
16. Official Narratives of the Civil War and the Franco Regime in the Twenty-first Century 143
17. Anti-militaristic and Pacifist Values across Spanish Children’s Literature 151
18. Transmitting the Civil War across Generations: How Spanish Youth Acquire their Memories 167
19. (Post)-Yugoslav Memory Travels: National and Transnational Dimensions 181
20. “I am something that no longer exists ...”: Yugonostalgia among Diaspora Youth 191
21. The Yugoslav 1980s and Youth Portrayals in Post-Yugoslav Films and TV 205
22. Part II: Thematic Perspectives
23. Promoting Patriotism, Suppressing Dissent Views: The Making of Historical Narratives and National Identity in Russia and Poland 221
24. Living Forms of Patriotism: Engaging Young Russians in Military History? 231
25. Engaging Young Readers in History: Alternative Historical Narratives in Contemporary Russian Children’s Literature 247
26. Engaging the Reader − Revising Patriotism: Polish Children’s and Crossover Literature in the Twenty-First Century 261
27. Dealing with Contested Pasts from Northern Ireland to French Algeria: Transformative Strategies of Agonism in Action? 277
28. The Dark Corners of European Colonial Memory in Films and Literature 303
29. Fictionalisation of Slavery in Children’s Books in France 313
30. King Sebastian and Lost Paradise? Amnesia and Opposing Myths 325
31. Beyond the Normative Understanding of Holocaust Memory: Between Cosmopolitan Memory and Local Reality 339
32. Understanding Terrible Crimes: Youth Memory of the Holocaust in the Russian Federation 349
33. “I am not comfortable with that”: Commemorative Practices among Young Jewish People in France 365
34. Notes on Contributors 379
35. Index 383