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Reconstructing Stalingrad: The Struggle to Rebuild and Redefine the "Hero City" After 1943, Part III
Despite the campaign to rename the city from Stalingrad to Volgograd, and the attendant scrubbing of the leader’s image and name from public space, Stalinist culture was already ingrained in...
Reconstructing Stalingrad: The Struggle to Rebuild and Redefine the "Hero City" After 1943, Part II
On Tuesday, June 15, 1943, the front page of "Stalingradskaia pravda" ran a letter to the editor, penned by a group of nineteen women led by a one A. M....
Reconstructing Stalingrad: The Struggle to Rebuild and Redefine the "Hero City" After 1943, Part I
The surrender of the last of nearly 90,000 Axis soldiers in Stalingrad on February 2, 1943 marked a major turning point in the Second World War and, indeed, in twentieth-century...