Stalin's Empire of Memory

Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination

Serhy Yekelchyk (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

252 Seiten

2014
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4426-2846-5 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Serhy Yekelchyk is an associate professor in the Departments of Germanic and Russian Studies and the Department of History at the University of Victoria.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.8.2014
Zusatzinfo	1 map
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 229 mm
Gewicht	400 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4426-2846-4 / 1442628464
ISBN-13	978-1-4426-2846-5 / 9781442628465
Zustand	Neuware