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Shaping Identity in Eastern Europe and Russia : Soviet and Polish Accounts of Ukrainian History, 1914-1991 - Stephen Velhchenko

Shaping Identity in Eastern Europe and Russia

Soviet and Polish Accounts of Ukrainian History, 1914-1991

By: Stephen Velhchenko, Stephen Valeychenko, Stephen Velychenko

Hardcover | 1 May 1993 | Edition Number 1

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The Ukraine's emergence as an independent state in 1991 was not accompanied by violence due, it may be argued, to the weak national consciousness of most of its citizens. In part, this was the legacy of an historiography imposed by its rulers, who played down or ignored the Soviet Union's diversity and the past tensions among its peoples so as to legitimize a supranational "Soviet" identity. The official history of the multinational state ruled from St Petersburg and Moscow bowdlerized the past and eroded the collective memory of each constituent nationality. The author compares Soviet and Polish accounts of the Ukraine's past, examines how "national history" was written and how its interpretation changed in each country. This book provides an account of how historical writing was used to build and destroy nations and states, and is particularly relevant today in the light of recent events in Eastern Europe. By the author of "National History as Cultural Process".

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