Ian Garner – författare

In the fall of 1942, only the city of Stalingrad stood between Soviet survival and defeat as Hitler’s army ran rampant. With the fate of the USSR hanging in the balance, Soviet propaganda chiefs sent their finest writers into the heat of battle. After six months of terrifying work, these men succeeded in creating an enduring epic of Stalingrad. Their harrowing tales of valour and heroism offered hope for millions of readers. “Stalingrad lives!” went the rallying cry: the city had to live if the nation was to stave off defeat. In Stalingrad Lives Ian Garner brings together a selection of short stories written at and after the battle. They reveal, for the first time in English, the real Russian narrative of Stalingrad – an epic story of death, martyrdom, resurrection, and utopian beginnings. Following the authors into the hellish world of Stalingrad, Garner traces how tragedy was written as triumph. He uncovers how, dealing with loss and destruction on an unimaginable scale, Soviet readers and writers embraced the story of martyred Stalingrad, embedding it into the Russian psyche for decades to come.Featuring lost work by Vasily Grossman alongside texts by luminaries such as Konstantin Simonov, Viktor Nekrasov, and Ilya Ehrenburg, Stalingrad Lives offers a literary perspective on the Soviet Union at war.

In the fall of 1942, only the city of Stalingrad stood between Soviet survival and defeat as Hitler’s army ran rampant. With the fate of the USSR hanging in the balance, Soviet propaganda chiefs sent their finest writers into the heat of battle. After six months of terrifying work, these men succeeded in creating an enduring epic of Stalingrad. Their harrowing tales of valour and heroism offered hope for millions of readers. “Stalingrad lives!” went the rallying cry: the city had to live if the nation was to stave off defeat. In Stalingrad Lives Ian Garner brings together a selection of short stories written at and after the battle. They reveal, for the first time in English, the real Russian narrative of Stalingrad – an epic story of death, martyrdom, resurrection, and utopian beginnings. Following the authors into the hellish world of Stalingrad, Garner traces how tragedy was written as triumph. He uncovers how, dealing with loss and destruction on an unimaginable scale, Soviet readers and writers embraced the story of martyred Stalingrad, embedding it into the Russian psyche for decades to come.Featuring lost work by Vasily Grossman alongside texts by luminaries such as Konstantin Simonov, Viktor Nekrasov, and Ilya Ehrenburg, Stalingrad Lives offers a literary perspective on the Soviet Union at war.

Kuinka Venäjä aivopesee lapsiaan kannattamaan hyökkäyssotaa ja myötäilemään hallinnon fasistisia oppeja?

Ian Garnerin teos paljastaa Venäjän synkän todellisuuden ja pimeän tulevaisuuden. Nuorten sukupolvi on väkivaltaisempi ja aatteellisempi kuin maassa on koskaan ennen nähty.

Sodanaikainen Venäjä hukkuu fasistisiin symboleihin. Innokkaat patriootit hyökkäävät toimittajia, oppositioaktivisteja ja kaikkia heitä vastaan, joita epäillään isänmaan pettureiksi. Nettitrollit yllyttävät kansalaisia ??liittymään joukkoon. Valtion televisio pelottelee katsojia tekaistuilla uutisilla Venäjän vastaisista salaliitoista ja kansanmurhapyrkimyksistä. Lapsisotilaat marssivat ylpeinä Punaisen torin poikki.

Tätä on Venäjä 2020-luvulla: raivon ja nationalististen valheiden maa, jossa teeskentely ja rikotut lupaukset ovat elämäntapa ja tuhoa ennustava ajattelu vallalla.

"Järkyttävä tutkimus Venäjän nuorison valtaisasta tuesta fasismin väkivallalle ja ideologialle – ja siitä, miten Putin on käyttänyt tätä hyväkseen." – Financial Times

Ian Garner on historioitsija ja Venäjän kulttuurin ja sotapropagandan tutkija. Hän on valmistunut tohtoriksi Toronton yliopistosta vuonna 2017 opiskeltuaan sitä ennen Bristolinyliopistossa ja Pietarin valtion konservatoriossa.