Jonathan Brunstedt discusses his Wilson Center project, “Entangled Defeats: The Soviet-Afghan War and the Shadow of Vietnam" and highlights his most recent book, “The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR."
In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, we are joined by Jonathan Brunstedt, former Title VIII Research Scholar with the Kennan Institute and Assistant Professor of History at Texas A&M University. He discusses his Wilson Center project, “Entangled Defeats: The Soviet-Afghan War and the Shadow of Vietnam." Jonathan also highlights his most recent book, “The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR,” which examines official notions of patriotism and patriotic identity in the USSR through the lens of World War II's public remembrance.
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