Spinning the past: Russian and Georgian accounts of the war of August 2008

Memory Studies

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 377-391

  Wertsch, James V ^a   Karumidze, Zurab ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective memory; Deep memory; Georgia; Narrative template; Russia

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349297134     PISSN: 17506980     EISSN: 17506999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1750698008337566     Document Type: Article

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