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Ian Garner


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History, Russia, Propaganda


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Ian Garner is a historian and translator of Russian war propaganda.

He has written/been interviewed for the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, New York Times, BBC, CBC, CTV, ABC, YLE, Radio Canada, Mashable, Dainik Bhaskar, VICE News, Times Radio, and more.

His academic work focuses on Soviet and Russian literary and cultural representations of war. In his own words: "I am on a mission to illuminate the hidden sides of Soviet and Russian life - a world of thoughts and feelings hidden behind closed doors and the Iron Curtain - through engaging wider western audiences in recent academic discoveries."

His work has been featured in numerous publications and showcased in ...more

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Viktor Nekrasov - Stalingrad, February 1943

The author and Stalingrad veteran penned this short reflection on the end of the fighting on the Volga in 1983. Then exiled in France - he never returned to the USSR before his death in 1987 - Nekrasov plays with myths and expectations of Soviet and German troops’ behaviour at Stalingrad.

Employing his customarily slippery narrative style, the author at once reiterates and underlines the validity

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Average rating: 3.84 · 223 ratings · 37 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors
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“The worse the atrocity, the more the public proclaimed that #WeArentAshamed (NamNeStydno). They believed in their crusade. They believed they were purifying Russia—a country that exists wherever Moscow has once reigned and wherever Russian is spoken”
― Ian Garner, Z Generation: Into the Heart of Russia's Fascist Youth
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“The fascist project focuses all its military, religious, and cultural energy on achieving this regeneration—even if that means sacrificing its own people, destroying its economic resources, or acting in any other way irrationally. The fascist, after all, perceives the world in mythical terms. Reality need not get in the way of chasing fantasy.”
― Ian Garner, Z Generation: Into the Heart of Russia's Fascist Youth
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