Stalin's empire of memory : Russian-Ukrainian relations in the Soviet historical imagination / / Serhy Yekelchyk

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817831003321
• Autore: Yekelchyk Serhy
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2004; ©2004
• ISBN: 1-4426-2392-6; 1-4426-2846-4; 1-281-99463-4; 9786611994631; 1-4593-6043-5; 1-4426-8016-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Disciplina: 947.7/0842
• Soggetti: Patriotism - Ukraine - History - 20th century; Patriotism in literature; Patriotism in art; History; Electronic books.; Ukraine Historiography; Russia Historiography; Russia Relations Ukraine; Ukraine Relations Russia; Ukraine History 20th century; Soviet Union History 1925-1953
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Empire and Its Nations -- Communities of Memory -- Stalin's Ukrainians -- Soviet National Patriots -- Between Class and Nation -- Remembering the Nation -- The Great Ukrainian People -- The Unbreakable Union -- The Unifying Past -- Ranking Friends and Brothers -- Ukraine Reunited -- Reinventing Ideological Orthodoxy -- ; Confusing Signals from Above -- The Ukrainian Zhdanovshchina -- Fashioning an Acceptable Past -- The Unfinished Crusade of 1947 -- The Enforced Dialogue -- The Attack on Historians -- The Campaign's Nationalist Echoes -- Writing A 'Stalinist History of Ukraine' -- The Quest for a New Memory -- Defining the Ancient Past -- Remembering the Empire -- Narrating the Nation -- Defining the National Heritage -- The Ukrainian Classics -- In the House of History -- Sites of Remembrance -- Empire and Nation in the Artistic Imagination -- Writers' Licence -- Filmmakers and Artists Imagine the Past -- History at the Opera -- The Last Stalinist Festival -- After Stalin.
• Sommario/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.