Stalin's Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination - Rilegato

Yekelchyk, Serhy; Iekelchyk, Serhii

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0802088082 ISBN 13: 9780802088086

Casa editrice: Univ of Toronto Pr, 2003

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

SERHY YEKELCHYK is an assistant professor in the Departments of History and Germanic and Russian Studies at the University of Victoria.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

'Yekelchyk has written a wonderful book that offers a wholly original, well-researched, sophisticated, and balanced account of an important subject. The focus is the struggle between Soviet political leaders, ideologists and cultural tastemakers on the one hand, and Ukrainian historians, cultural figures and their political supervisors on the other... This book represents a highly significant contribution to scholarship.'

'This is an excellent book ... Yekelchyk demonstrates the critical importance of the politics of memory for the study of empires in general and of the Soviet Union in particular. At the cutting edge of Ukrainian and Russian studies as well as cultural and postcolonial studies, it will have a significant impact.'

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Toronto Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0802088082
• ISBN 13: 9780802088086
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 280