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Alexander Etkind - Remembering Katyn - 9780745655765 - V9780745655765
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Remembering Katyn

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Description for Remembering Katyn Hardcover. Katyn the Soviet massacre of over 21,000 Polish prisoners in 1940 has come to be remembered as Stalin s emblematic mass murder, an event obscured by one of the most extensive cover-ups in history. Yet paradoxically, a majority of its victims perished far from the forest in western Russia that gives the tragedy its name. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 231 x 22. Weight in Grams: 462.

Katyn– the Soviet massacre of over 21,000 Polish prisoners in 1940 – has come to be remembered as Stalin’s emblematic mass murder, an event obscured by one of the most extensive cover-ups in history. Yet paradoxically, a majority of its victims perished far from the forest in western Russia that gives the tragedy its name. Their remains lie buried in killing fields throughout Russia, Ukraine and, most likely, Belarus. Today their ghosts haunt the cultural landscape of Eastern Europe.

This book traces the legacy of Katyn through the interconnected memory cultures of seven countries: Belarus, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and the ... Read more

Drawing on novels and films, debates and controversies, this book makes the case for a transnational study of cultural memory and navigates a contested past in a region that will define Europe’s future. Show Less

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745655765
SKU
V9780745655765
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Ref
99-1

About Alexander Etkind
Alexander Etkind is Reader in Russian Literature and Cultural History at the University of Cambridge. Rory Finnin is Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies and Chair of the Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Cambridge. Uilleam Blacker is MAW Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Cambridge. Julie Fedor is ... Read more

Reviews for Remembering Katyn
"An informative survey of the debates occaasioned by the crimes of early 1940." Times Literary Supplement "A fine example of international research collaboration." Russian Review "An important corrective to most recent studies of imperialism, which rarely transcend the national optic." Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research "This book, ... Read more

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