Format: Hardback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9780822946502
Pub Date: April 2021
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Illustrations: 40 b&w
Price:
£35.00
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Description:
One of the iconic images of WWII was a Russian soldier raising a red flag atop the ruins of the German Reichstag. Award-winning author Hicks explores how the Soviets, and then Putin, have used this image and the banner itself to build a remarkably powerful mythology of Russian greatness.