Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-410) and index
Introduction: Making Sense of War -- pt. I. Delineating the Body Politic. 1. Myth and Power: The Making of a Postwar Elite. 2. "Living Up to the Calling of a Communist": Purification of the Rank and File -- pt. II. Delineating the Body Socioethnic. 3. Excising Evil. 4. Memory of Excision, Excisionary Memory -- pt. III. The Making of a Postwar Soviet Nation. 5. Integral Nationalism in the Trial of War. 6. Peasants to Soviets, Peasants to Ukrainians -- Afterword: A Soviet World without Soviet Power, a Myth of War without War