EAN: 9783838213354

WHEN THE FUTURE CAME THE COLLAPSE OF THE USSR A...

This captivating volume brings together case studies drawn from four post-Soviet states-Russia
Ukraine  Belarus  and Moldova. The collected papers illustrate how the events that started in
1985 and brought down the USSR six years later led to the rise of fifteen successor states 
with their own historicized collective memories. The volume's analyses juxtapose history
textbooks for secondary schools and universities  and how they aim to create understandings as
well as identities that are politically usable  within their different contexts. From this
emerges a picture of multiple perestroika(s) and diverging development paths. Only in Ukraine-a
country that recently experienced two popular uprisings  the Orange Revolution and the
Revolution of Dignity-the people themselves are ascribed agency and the power to change their
country. In the other three states  elites are  instead  presented as prime movers of society 
as is historical determinism. The volume's contributors are Diana Bencheci  Andrei Dudchik 
Liliya Erushkina  Marharyta Fabrykant  Alexandr Gorylev  Andrey Kashin  Alla Marchenko  Valerii
Mosneagu  Alexey Rusakov  Natalia Tregubova  and Yuliya Yurchuk.

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