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

by Serhy Yekelchyk

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442628464
• ISBN13: 9781442628465
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"