EAN: 9783838217048

WORLD WAR II AS AN IDENTITY PROJECT - OLEKSANDR...

This book explores the relationship between history  legitimacy  and violence in the building
and breaking of nations and states on the territory of contemporary Ukraine during the Second
World War and in its aftermath. At its center are various institutions of the Soviet state.
Other states and rival political movements also enter the picture insofar as their acitivities
influenced Soviet policies. Methodologically  the study shifts attention from a limited body of
normative texts and their creators within the Soviet political and cultural elite to a wider
array of practices  organizations  and players engaged in power struggles and production of
knowledge about the past in different social domains. Specifically  it brings into focus groups
not normally thought of as participants in the production of Soviet memory discourse  notably
NKVD officers  Soviet archivists  Ukrainian nationalists  Nazi collaborators  and former
partisans in the German-occupied territories. The book not only demonstrates the complexity of
nation-shaping processes  but also restores agency to some seemingly powerless actors.

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