Stalin's Empire of Memory(English, Hardcover, Yekelchyk Serhy)

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Stalin's Empire of Memory(English, Hardcover, Yekelchyk Serhy) is written by Yekelchyk Serhy and published by University of Toronto Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0802088082 (ISBN 10) and 9780802088086 (ISBN 13).

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.