This volume presents the first comprehensive scholarly analysis of the collective memory of the Holodomor—the Ukrainian Great Famine of 1932-1933—examining its construction, evolution, and contestation across nearly a century. Moving beyond historical accounts of the event itself, this book interrogates how memories of this catastrophe have been shaped, mobilized, and interpreted within multiple discursive frameworks.
Drawing on interdisciplinary methodological approaches from memory studies and political science, the author provides a rigorous examination of how the Holodomor has been constructed as social-cultural memory by actors who challenged Soviet policies of enforced amnesia. The book illuminates the complex interrelationship between memory agents, political institutions, and commemorative practices, while critically assessing the securitization of memory and its implications for academic discourse.
This theoretically nuanced contribution to memory studies and Eastern European historiography will be indispensable for researchers and postgraduate students engaged with genocide studies, collective memory, post-Soviet politics, and the intersection of historical narrative and national identity formation.
This volume presents the first comprehensive scholarly analysis of the collective memory of the Holodomor—the Ukrainian Great Famine of 1932-1933—examining its construction, evolution, and contestation across nearly a century.
Preface
PART I. THE PAST AS PRESENT
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1. Total recall
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2. Inventing the tradition
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3. Holodomor: the agency
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4. Urbi et orbi
PART II. WORDS AND THINGS
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5. Discourse, symbols, rituals
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6. Lieux de memoire
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7. Social frames
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8. Vivat academia? Vicissitudes of mnemohistory
Afterword
Georgiy Kasianov is Head of the Laboratory of International Memory Studies at the Institute of International Relations, Maria Curie-Skodowska University in Poland. Until 2021, he served as Head of the Department of Contemporary History and Politics at the Institute of the History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences. His academic career includes research and teaching appointments at leading institutions such as Harvard and Cambridge Universities, the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., as well as universities in Germany, Australia, Japan, Canada, Finland, Italy, and Switzerland. Kasianov is the author, co-author, and co-editor of more than twenty books focusing on Ukrainian history from the 19th to the 21st century, the history of ideas, social history, and the politics of memory.
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