Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION -- Empire and Its Nations -- Communities of Memory -- Stalin's Ukrainians -- 1 SOVIET NATIONAL PATRIOTS -- Between Class and Nation -- Remembering the Nation -- The Great Ukrainian People -- 2 THE UNBREAKABLE UNION -- The Unifying Past -- Ranking Friends and Brothers -- Ukraine Reunited -- 3 REINVENTING IDEOLOGICAL ORTHODOXY -- Confusing Signals from Above -- The Ukrainian Zhdanovshchina -- Fashioning an Acceptable Past -- 4 THE UNFINISHED CRUSADE OF 1947 -- The Enforced Dialogue -- The Attack on Historians -- The Campaign's Nationalist Echoes -- 5 WRITING A 'STALINIST HISTORY OF UKRAINE' -- The Quest for a New Memory -- Defining the Ancient Past -- Remembering the Empire -- Narrating the Nation -- 6 DEFINING THE NATIONAL HERITAGE -- The Ukrainian Classics -- In the House of History -- Sites of Remembrance -- 7 EMPIRE AND NATION IN THE ARTISTIC IMAGINATION -- Writers' Licence -- Filmmakers and Artists Imagine the Past -- History at the Opera -- EPILOGUE -- The Last Stalinist Festival -- After Stalin -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Illustrations.

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.

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