title: Forgotten wars: Russian nurses reflect on their choices in the armed conflicts of Afghanistan and Chechnya
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metadata.value: Cherepanova, Ekaterina S.
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metadata.value: 2023-04-27T19:51:12Z
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metadata.value: 2023-04-27T19:51:12Z
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metadata.value: 2023-03
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metadata.value: Cherepanova E. S. Forgotten wars: Russian nurses reflect on their choices in the armed conflicts of Afghanistan and Chechnya. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2023, vol. 39, issue 1, pp. 117–128. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2023.110
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2023.110
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/41384
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metadata.value: This article examines Russian nurses’ reflections about their individual moral experience of
  the armed conflicts in Afghanistan (1979–1989) and in Chechnya (1994–1996; 1999–2009).
  The study relies on published documents and interviews featured in various online sources.
  The study aims to shed light on the main value orientations that influence present-day evaluations
  of these events and to show how the values systems of those participating in war had
  become transformed under the influence of wartime experiences. The concept of charity plays
  a crucial role in the nurses’ reflection as it enables them to emphasise their special mission in
  war: not only to provide people with health care but also with moral support. This concept
  also underpins the practises of justification of moral choice. The article demonstrates that the
  discrepancy between established commemorative practises and the personal inability to make
  sense of death in war makes any justification of casualties impossible on the level of individual
  reflection relative to the events of the WWII. The circumstances of war’s ‘trauma epidemics’
  remain significant within these women’s personal moral experience. In addition to the paralysis
  or passivity in the face of death that they experienced, in their civilian lives, they become
  acutely aware of the impossibility of finding any meaning in the death toll that is war’s inevitable
  result. The nurses’ memoirs lay a special emphasis on their attitudes toward the enemy.
  On one hand, they remember the feelings they experienced toward the enemies in Chechnya
  or Afghanistan; on the other hand, from a more recent perspective, it becomes clear that these
  armed conflicts require new interpretations and evaluations.
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metadata.value: The research is supported by the grant of the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 20-18-00240).
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 39; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ethics of war
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: moral experience
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: death
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: compassion
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: charity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: representation of the enemy
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metadata.value: Forgotten wars: Russian nurses reflect on their choices in the armed conflicts of Afghanistan and Chechnya
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metadata.value: Article
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