A Glorious War? : Contemporary Russia Reimagines World War I

After more than seventy years of the Soviet Union rejecting the First World War as an imperialist war, it fell to the Soviet Union\u27s successor state of Russia to commemorate the War\u27s centenary in 2014. Exploring the creation of Russia\u27s first national memorial to the First World War in Moscow and the founding of a World War I History Museum in Tsarskoe Selo, Karen Petrone argues that Russia\u27s new remembrance of the First World War is an integral part of Vladimir Putin\u27s campaign to re-nationalize, re-militarize, and re-masculinize contemporary Russia. To some degree, the ordeal of the Russian Empire during the First World War is being rewritten as a glorious chapter in Russian national history