Show simple item record

dc.contributor.authorMarkussen, Joakim Aalmen
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-03T09:21:21Z
dc.date.available2021-09-03T09:21:21Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-25
dc.description.abstractA few kilometers from the border with Russia, in the town of Kirkenes in the easternmost corner of Northern Norway, there stands a bronze statue of a Soviet soldier looking out over the borderland. The Soviet Liberation Monument, as the statue is called, was unveiled in 1952 by the Norwegian authorities, in gratitude for the Soviet liberation of the East Finnmark area in 1944. The statue has served as a meeting place for regular commemorative ceremonies involving the Norwegian and Soviet authorities, throughout the Cold War and up until the present. This article explores the interplay between security policy and memory politics at the onset of the Cold War by examining the seven-year long process of establishing this monument. As the Iron Curtain descended over Europe, the monument and the memories attached to it became important tools with which Norway developed a critical dialogue with its great-power neighbor. The article shows how the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs learned how to use the collective memories of the Soviet liberation to ensure Norway’s security-policy goal of low tension in its relations with the USSR.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMarkussen J. Sikkerhetspolitisk minnediplomati: Opprettelsen av Frigjøringsmonumentet i Kirkenes 1945-1952. Nordisk Østforum. 2021;35en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1918961
dc.identifier.doi10.23865/noros.v35.2960
dc.identifier.issn0801-7220
dc.identifier.issn1891-1773
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/22381
dc.language.isonoben_US
dc.publisherCappelen Damm Akademisken_US
dc.relation.journalNordisk Østforum
dc.relation.urihttps://tidsskriftet-nof.no/index.php/noros/article/view/2960/5494?fbclid=IwAR35iN0tccVH8HoSlarrzOjmrOXPRjveVt17tBHw6KriC-aKU8ZQ5_hRC3M
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::History: 070en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Historie: 070en_US
dc.titleSikkerhetspolitisk minnediplomati: Opprettelsen av Frigjøringsmonumentet i Kirkenes 1945-1952en_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


File(s) in this item

Thumbnail

This item appears in the following collection(s)

Show simple item record