Soviet and Post-Soviet Wars: an Oral History Project" Is NOW ON-LINE! (Free Access)

H-Soyuz The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies, Issue 20/21 - "Soviet and Post-Soviet Wars: An Oral History Project" is NOW ON-LINE! (free access)

Discussion published by Elisabeth SIECA-KOZLOWSKI on Tuesday, April 21, 2020

PIPSS is pleased to present its latest issue dedicated to a new project it is launching on the occasion of its 15th anniversary:

An Oral History of the Soviet Wars and Post-Soviet An open access oral history collection A participatory initiative https://journals.openedition.org/pipss/4783

Soviet & Post-Soviet Wars: An Oral History Project - Introduction

Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski Soviet & Post-Soviet Wars: An Oral History Project An Open-Access Oral History Collection & A Participatory Initiative

Soviet & Post-Soviet Wars: An Oral History Project - Testimonies

Soviet-German War

Alexander Gogun et Masha Cerovic Interview with Tatiana Markovskaia, - Veteran of the Lelchitsky Partisan Brigade (Soviet-German War) -, Conducted in Mirhorod, Poltava Region, Ukraine, 9 August 2008 (mix of RU,BEL,UKR)

Soviet-Afghan War

Ben McVicker Interview with Colonel Vladimir Furtună, Conducted in Chișinău, Moldova, May 2015 (RU) Cloé Drieu et Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski Interview with Robertas Krikstaponis, - Conscript (Soviet-Afghan War) -, Conducted in Vilnius, Lithuania, 25 August 2015 (RU) Cloé Drieu et Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski Interview with Petras Gaškas, - Sergeant (Soviet-Afghan War) -, Conducted in

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Vilnius, Lithuania, 26 August 2015 (RU)

Soviet-Afghan War & Transnistrian War

Ben McVicker Interview with Brigadier General Nicolae Petrică, Chișinău, Moldova, May 2015 (RU) Cloé Drieu et Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski Interview with Olga Capatina, - Physiotherapist and GRU Operative (Soviet- Afghan War) & Double Agent (Transnistrian War) -, Conducted in Paris, France, 25 September 2015 (EN) Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski Interview with Mikhail Karp, - Officer (Soviet-Afghan War) & Intelligence Officer (Transnistrian War), Chișinău, Moldova, 26 August 2018 (RU) Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski Interview with Sergei Nazarenko, - Officer (Soviet-Afghan War & Transnistrian War) -, Conducted in Chișinău, Moldova, 28 August 2018 (RU) Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski Interview with Victor Alerguș, - Sergeant (Soviet-Afghan War) & Officer of a Special Operation Team MMVD (Transnistrian War) -, Conducted in Chişinău, Moldova, 25 August 2018 (RU)

Nagorno-Karabakh War

Nona Shahnazarian Interview with Leonid, Serviceman (Nagorno-Karabakh War), Conducted in Nagorno-Karabakh, 31 August 2013 (RU)

Georgian-Abkhazian War

Anne Le Huérou et Silvia Serrano Interview with Giorgi "Gia" Karkarashvili, - Commander of the Georgian Troops (Georgian-Abkhazian War), Tbilissi, Georgia, 30 November 2016 (RU)

Chechnya (1st War)

Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski Interview with Sergei, - Conscript (1st Chechen War) -, Conducted in Moscow, Russia, 14 July 2010 (FR+EN)

Chechnya (2nd War)

Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski Interview with Valentin, - Voluntary Conscript (2nd Chechen War) -, Conducted in Moscow, Russia, 13 July 2010 (FR+EN) Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski Interview with Aleksandr, - Voluntary Conscript (2nd Chechen War) -, Conducted in

Moscow, Russia, 14 July 2010 (FR+EN) Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski Interview with Vadim, - Voluntary Conscript, then Contract Intelligence Officer (2nd Chechen War) -, Conducted in Moscow, Russia, July 2010 (EN)

Post-War Rehabilitation

Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski Interview with Retired Major General Iuri Nauman, - Director of the Cheshire Home for War Invalids (1992-2015) -, Conducted in Moscow, Russia, 13 July 2010 (RU) Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski Interview with Mikhail Iashin, - Director of the Cheshire Home for War Invalids (2015-Present) -, Conducted in Moscow, Russia, 13 February 2019 (RU) Ben McVicker Interview with Dr Vasilii Ouatu, Director of the Republican Centre of Experimental Prosthetics, Orthopaedics, and Rehabilitation (2001-2011), Chișinău, Moldova, May 2015 (RU)

Soviet & Post-Soviet Wars: An Oral History Project - Documents, Photos and Recording

Soviet-Afghan War

Document – Памятка Советскому воину-интернационалисту, 1982 Memo to the Soviet Internationalist-Soldier, 1982 Пограничные войска СССР (Soviet Border Troops) Document - Сборник материалов по контрпропагандистской работе, Январь 1987 год Brochure of counter-propaganda materials, January 1987 Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski Photo-Gallery - 30th Anniversary of the Withdrawal of the Soviet Troops from Afghanistan, Moscow, 14th & 15th February 2019

Chechnya (2nd War)

С.А.Мельков et А.Н.Перенджиев Document - Методические рекомендации по работе с военными строителями- мусульманами (В помощь командирам и офицерам-воспитателям военно- строительных частей Минобороны России) Министерство обороны Российской Федерации, Управление службы войск, безопасности военной службы и воспитательной работы военно-строительных частей, Москва – 2004, 48 c. Methodological recommendations for work with Muslim military construction

workers (To help commanders and officers in charge of military construction units [stroibaty] of the Russian Ministry of Defense) С.А.Григорян, С.А.Мельков et А.Н.Перенджиев Document - Методические рекомендации офицерам по работе с военнослужащими-мусульманами (Учебно-методическое пособие) Управление воспитательной работы Сухопутных войск, Москва – 2005, 102 c. Methodological recommendations for officers working with Muslim servicemen (Manual)

Soviet & Post-Soviet Wars - Book Reviews (4)

Pierre Labrunie Gregory Carleton, Russia: The Story of War Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017, 304 pages Masha Cerovic Konstantin Andreevich Tarasov, Soldatskii bol’shevizm. Voennaia organizatsiia bol’shevikov i levoradikal’noe dvizhenie v Petrogradskom garnizone (fevral’ 1917-mart 1918 g.) SPb.: Izdatel’stvo Evropeiskogo universiteta v Sankt-Peterburge, 2017, 376 s. Gabor Rittersporn Brandon M. Schechter, The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II Through Objects Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2019, XXIV + 315 pages Jean-François Ratelle Mairbek Vatchagaev, Chechnya: The Inside Story. From Independence to War Open Books, 2019, 255 pages