Introduction : Andrei Makine, the Great Fatherland War, the historical novel and (Russian) postmodernism
Andrei Makine's novels as historiographic metafictions
The hero of the Soviet Union : from victor to victim
The war invalid : the samovar, the kommunalka and the docile body, or the dialectic of fragmentation and plenitude
The Jew : between victimhood and complicity, or how an army-dodger and rootless cosmopolitan has become a saintly ogre
The Blokadnik : a saintly prostitute or a heroic defender of Leningrad?
Conclusions : writing history of World War II as a prophet.