Stalingrad in Popular Memory

Part of Eastern Front Week on WW2TV In today’s show, Dr Ian Garner joins us to talk about how the Russians have looked at the battle for Stalingrad from the end of the campaign until today. We will be asking questions such as: is Stalingrad still important in the collective Russian memory today? If so, what’s the story that Russians remember? Also, why Stalingrad? Why not, for example, the defeat of German forces at Moscow in 1941. How does the historiography and understanding change through the Stalin years, the post-Stalin Soviet era, and the current post-Soviet era? Ian Garner is currently writing a book about Stalingrad in Popular Memory