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Appropriating History: The Soviet Past in Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian Popular Culture edited by Matthias Schwartz and Nina Weller print Rachmaninoff rebuilds his life inPopular media plays an important role in collective imaginations of history. The volume investigates this phenomenon by examining examples from Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian popular cultures. The contributors analyse the strategies of dramatisation, emotionalisation and personalisation of the past in mainstream films, TV series, novels, comics, computer games and music videos. The case studies discuss how "entertaining" media formats process