From Taboo to Controversial Narratives of World War II in Russian War Cinema Post-Glasnost`. Anti-Heroes in Penal Battalions

The article aims to reveal de-heroicising patterns of World War II in recent Russian films about a previously forbidden topic in the Soviet period – Soviet penal battalions (shtrafbats). Still a controversial topic, the recent films and TV series on this topic disclose new heroic approaches and ways of constructing World War II's (unsung) heroes. On the one hand, these filmic

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Philobiblon Transylvanian Journal of Multidisciplinary Research in Humanities
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2025-06-24
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https://doi.org/10.26424/philobib.2025.30.1.12
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Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
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From Taboo to Controversial Narratives of World War II in Russian War Cinema Post-Glasnost`. Anti-Heroes in Penal Battalions

Olga Grădinaru
Philobiblon Transylvanian Journal of Multidisciplinary Research in Humanities
Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
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From Taboo to Controversial Narratives of World War II in Russian War Cinema Post-Glasnost`. Anti-Heroes in Penal Battalions

Olga Grădinaru
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The article aims to reveal de-heroicising patterns of World War II in recent Russian films about a previously forbidden topic in the Soviet period – Soviet penal battalions (shtrafbats). Still a controversial topic, the recent films and TV series on this topic disclose new heroic approaches and ways of constructing World War II's (unsung) heroes. On the one hand, these filmic

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From Taboo to Controversial Narratives of World War II in Russian War Cinema Post-Glasnost`. Anti-Heroes in Penal Battalions — Olga Grădinaru · Philobiblon Transylvanian Journal of Multidisciplinary Research in Humanities (2025) | TGRS Research Map | TGRS