CRRC, American Councils and ARISC are pleased to announce the 3rd talk of the Fall 2024 Tbilisi Works-in-Progress series!
This week’s talk will be in hybrid format in-person at CRRC Georgia and online.
Book Talk – *Remembering the War, Forgetting the Terror: Appeals to Family Memory in Putin’s Russia*
Ekaterina Haskins, Pennsylvania State University
Remembering the War, Forgetting the Terror (Penn State Press, 2024) explores the appeal of the cult of the Great Patriotic War and the waning public interest in Soviet political terror as intertwined trends. Ekaterina Haskins argues that these developments are driven not only by the weaponization of the official memory of World War II but also by familial pieties and deep-seated habits of memory. The author uncovers how widely shared practices of remembrance have taken root and flourished through recurring exposure to war films, urban environments, popular commemorative rituals, and digital archives. Combining scholarship and personal biography, Haskins illuminates why, despite the staggering toll of World War II and internal political violence on Soviet families, most Russian citizens continue to proudly embrace their family’s participation in the war effort and avoid discussion of domestic political persecution.
Ekaterina Haskins is Professor of Rhetoric and Visual Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She received her undergraduate degree in philology from Moscow State University, Russia, and her graduate degrees in communication and rhetoric from Wake Forest University (M.A.) and the University of Iowa (Ph.D.) She has published three monographs and numerous articles on political rhetoric, public memory, and visual culture. Her recent scholarship investigates the rhetoric and politics of public memory in Russia and post-Soviet countries.
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Works-in-Progress is an ongoing academic discussion series based in Tbilisi, Georgia, that takes place at the CRRC office at Chavchavadze Ave. 5 and online. It is co-organized by the Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC), the American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS, and the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC). All of the talks are free and open to the public.
In observation of the spirit of the Chatham House Rule, the talks will not be recorded, and we courteously request that the other participants refrain from recording and/or distributing recordings as well. The opinions expressed in WiP talks are those of the speakers alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views of CRRC, ARISC or of American Councils.
