Julie Fedor & Andriy Portnov 
Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society 
2015/2: Double Special Issue: Back from Afghanistan: The Experiences of Soviet Afghan War Veterans and: Martyrdom & Memory in Post-Socialist Space

This double special issue investigates the experiences of Soviet Afghan veterans and the ongoing impact of the Soviet-Afghan war (1979-89); and the new and reconstituted narratives of martyrdom that have been emerging in connection with 20th-century history and memory in the post-socialist world.

The JOURNAL OF SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY (JSPPS) is a new bi-annual companion journal to the Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (SPPS) book series (founded 2004 and edited by Andreas Umland, Dr. phil., Ph D).

Guest editors: Felix Ackermann (European Humanities University); Michael Galbas (Konstanz University); Uilleam Blacker (UCL)

Über den Autor

Julie Fedor is lecturer in modern European history at the University of Melbourne. Andriy Portnov is guest lecturer at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Andreas Umland is a researcher of contemporary Russian and Ukrainian politics at the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Ukraine and the Eichstaett Institute for Central and East European Studies, Germany.

Felix Ackermann is a DAAD visiting associate professor at European Humanities University (Vilnius).

Uilleam Blacker is Lecturer in Comparative Russian and East European Culture at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.

Michael Galbas‘ is currently working in Moscow on how the Soviet-Afghan War is being remembered. His research is funded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service).