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Article: Stalin's Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- December 22, 2005
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Stalin's Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination. By Serhy Yekelchyk. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 231. $50.00.)
It was exceedingly difficult to be a historian, writer, artist, or composer in Josef Stalin's Ukraine, as the author amply documents with new material in this detailed study. Life would have been easier had Stalin simply sent clear directives of how he wanted Ukraine to be represented and celebrated. As it was, local party ideologues, functionaries, and Ukrainian intellectuals, including historians and artists, engaged in complex negotiations to fulfill the wishes of Stalin--as best ...