Violence Experienced by Disabled Veterans of the Chechen wars : Some Exploratory Notes
Through interviews conducted in 2010 veterans of local wars in post-Soviet Russia claim to be the victims of violence on behalf of the State. They consider themselves as victims of negligence and bad treatement, often exposed to unnecessary risks on the battlefield. Once returned to civil life, they...
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The Journal of power institutions in post-soviet societies
2013
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Tóm tắt: | Through interviews conducted in 2010 veterans of local wars in post-Soviet Russia claim to be the victims of violence on behalf of the State. They consider themselves as victims of negligence and bad treatement, often exposed to unnecessary risks on the battlefield. Once returned to civil life, they speak about rejection and abandonment. The symbolic, institutional, and social violence they describe appears to be particularly prevalant among disabled veterans, the group most in need of State support. Although the history of the Soviet Union demonstrates that lost wars lead to the social abandonment of veterans as much as victorious wars, the fate of disabled veterans seems to be conditioned by the cultural heritage of the Soviet period which glorifies a muscular body and favors work capacity as a criterion for citizenship. |
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