Autore
Pianciola, Niccolò

Titolo
Propaganda, storia e politica tra Russia e Asia centrale. I «ventotto eroi della divisione Panfilov» da Stalin a Putin, 1941-2023
Periodico
Contemporanea
Anno: 2025 - Volume: 108 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 59 - Pagina finale: 89

The text analyses the creation by the Stalinist war propaganda, and then the political relevance in the decades between World War II and Russia’s war against Ukraine, of the story of the Panfilov Division’s twenty-eight soldiers who died heroically in the Battle of Moscow in 1941. The story survived, as official truth, a 1948 investigation by the Procurator General of the Soviet Union that showed its falsity, and the public discussions of Khrushchev’s «Thaw» during the 1960s. After post-Soviet Russian historians conclusively showed its fictional character, under Putin and his plenipotentiary in charge of the «politics of history», Vladimir Medinskii, the story has once again risen to official truth. The analysis focuses on four interrelated aspects: the mechanisms of Soviet propaganda during World War II; the build-up of the multi-ethnic Red Army under Stalin; the memorialization of World War II in the Ussr and in the post-Soviet period in Russia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan; and the mechanisms of political control of information in the Soviet and post-Soviet authoritarian regimes. The distinctiveness and historical interest of the story concocted by Soviet journalists under Stalin lies in its longevity, unthinkable in public spheres less controlled by state power, and in the periodic re-emergence of political battles in Russia and Central Asia involving writers, journalists, historians, archivists, politicians, and generals, over the meaning and use of the story.



SICI: 1127-3070(2025)108:1<59:PSEPTR>2.0.ZU;2-U
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