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11%OFFSerhy Yekelchyk - Stalin´s Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination - 9781442628465 - V9781442628465
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Stalin´s Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination

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Description for Stalin´s Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination Paperback. Combining archival research with an innovative methodology that links scholarly and political texts with the literary works and artistic images, Stalin's Empire of Memory presents a lucid, readable text that will become a must-have for students, academics, and anyone interested in Russian history. Num Pages: 252 pages, 6, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBAH; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414.

Based on declassified materials from eight Ukrainian and Russian archives, Stalin's Empire of Memory, offers a complex and vivid analysis of the politics of memory under Stalinism. Using the Ukrainian republic as a case study, Serhy Yekelchyk elucidates the intricate interaction between the Kremlin, non-Russian intellectuals, and their audiences.

Yekelchyk posits that contemporary representations of the past reflected the USSR's evolution into an empire with a complex hierarchy among its nations. In reality, he argues, the authorities never quite managed to control popular historical imagination or fully reconcile Russia's 'glorious past' with national mythologies of the non-Russian nationalities.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442628465
SKU
V9781442628465
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About Serhy Yekelchyk
Serhy Yekelchyk is an associate professor in the Departments of Germanic and Russian Studies and the Department of History at the University of Victoria.

Reviews for Stalin´s Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination
“Yekelchyk’s account is a model of archival research and clear exposition.”
Timothy Snyder
American Historical Review
“By masterfully integrating theories of collective memory with archival research and by detailing the party’s compromises with the past, Yekelchyk has produced a rich and thought-provoking assessment of the politics of memory in Soviet Ukraine.”
George O. Liber
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