Soviet Internment
Autor Maria Cristina Galmarini Editat de Stephen M Norris, Polly Jonesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 sep 2025
Through an analysis of Umberto's copious life-writings, Soviet Internment examines the testimony of a surviving WWII prisoner, whose memories were haunted by the fury of war and whose body carried deep physical and emotional traces but who nonetheless felt a nostalgic attachment to his place of internment. The book brings theoretical questions about memory, trauma, and European people's political trajectories into sustained contact with an individual's specific experience, organically prompting a reconsideration of key 20th-century events in the process.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350507746
ISBN-10: 1350507741
Pagini: 152
Ilustrații: 8 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1350507741
Pagini: 152
Ilustrații: 8 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Prologue
1. A Genealogy of Memory and Narration
2. Fascist Youth and the Call to Arms
3. The 'Russian Front'
4. Internment at Zubova Poliana
5. The Unhealing Wounds of War
Select Bibliography
Index
1. A Genealogy of Memory and Narration
2. Fascist Youth and the Call to Arms
3. The 'Russian Front'
4. Internment at Zubova Poliana
5. The Unhealing Wounds of War
Select Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
This fascinating study reconstructs the remarkable story of Umberto Montini, an Italian soldier who survived the Second World War and Soviet internment. Maria Cristina Galmarini examines the impact of war and captivity through a skillful analysis of Montini's extraordinary personal archive, revealing how individuals made sense of traumatic memories and experiences, and rebuild fragile identities.
Drawing on theoretical approaches to trauma, memory, and historical narrative, this fascinating book highlights two moments in the entangled history of an Italian youth captured on the Soviet front: the war itself, and the commemorations fifty years later, which spurred him to revisit the emotional landscape of his youth.
Galmarini reveals herself in this short masterpiece on the complexity of human memory as an astute, compassionate and diligent historian of her subject Umberto Mantini, a former Italian soldier and Soviet prisoners of war. She is respectful and attentive to his story and motivations, yet she does not allow him or herself any slack in picking apart the many layers of meaning that are embedded in his primary story and which make his tale transcend the genre of soldier memoir. A superb and sharp writer, she retains warmth and curiosity throughout. I have rarely read a book that is written with such analytical aplomb and yet conveys humanity in abundance.
Drawing on theoretical approaches to trauma, memory, and historical narrative, this fascinating book highlights two moments in the entangled history of an Italian youth captured on the Soviet front: the war itself, and the commemorations fifty years later, which spurred him to revisit the emotional landscape of his youth.
Galmarini reveals herself in this short masterpiece on the complexity of human memory as an astute, compassionate and diligent historian of her subject Umberto Mantini, a former Italian soldier and Soviet prisoners of war. She is respectful and attentive to his story and motivations, yet she does not allow him or herself any slack in picking apart the many layers of meaning that are embedded in his primary story and which make his tale transcend the genre of soldier memoir. A superb and sharp writer, she retains warmth and curiosity throughout. I have rarely read a book that is written with such analytical aplomb and yet conveys humanity in abundance.