The Eastern Front: War, Myth, and Memory

This is one of the few critical examinations of the war on the Second World War’s Eastern Front that includes both perspectives and looks at the war as a multifaceted effort.

Yan Mann is an Associate Clinical Professor of History and the Program Lead of the World War II Studies Master’s degree program at Arizona State University. His research interests include the relationship between individual and collective memory, the Stalin cult, censorship, and propaganda.

Olga Kucherenko is a Faculty Associate at the World War II Studies Master’s degree program at Arizona State University. Her research interests include conflict-based propaganda, wartime childhood, and allied relations. She is the author of Soviet Street Children and the Second World War: Welfare and Social Control under Stalin (2016) and Little Soldiers: How Soviet Children Went to War, 1941-1945 (2011).