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Memory Crash: Politics of History in and Around Ukraine, 1980s-2010s by Georgiy Kasianov

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This account of historical politics in Ukraine, framed in a broader European context, shows how social, political, and cultural groups have used and misused the past from the final years of the Soviet Union to 2020. Georgiy Kasianov details practices relating to history and memory by a variety of actors, including state institutions, non-governmental organizations, political parties, historians, and local governments. He identifies the main political purposes of these practices in the construction of nation and identity, struggles for power, warfare, and international relations.

Kasianov considers the Ukrainian case in the context of a global increase in the politics of history and memory, with particular emphasis on a distinctive East-European variety. He pays special attention to the use and abuse of history in relations between Ukraine, Russia, and Poland.



About the Author
Georgiy Kasianov is Head of the Laboratory of International Memory Studies, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland. He is an author, co-author and co-editor of more than twenty books on the history of Ukraine in the 19th-21th centuries.

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"Mit der vorliegenden Monographie zur ukrainischen Geschichtspolitik ist Kasianov eine Studie gelungen, die noch lange als Standardwerk gelten durfte und sich hervorragend in den Forschungsstand zu anderen osteuropaischen Staaten einfugt. Vor dem Hintergrund des russischen Krieges gegen die Ukraine ist es eine bittere Ironie, dass dieses Buch sich wie ein Resumee der ukrainischen kollektiven Erinnerung seit dem Ende des Staatssozialismus liest." http://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-117069 -- Ekaterina Makhotina * H-Soz-Kult *
"Kasianov's nuanced and impartial chronicle of the politics of history in Ukraine considers two competing versions of that country's national history: a 'Soviet nostalgic' one that stressed continuity with the Soviet period and a nationalist one that emphasized Ukraine's suffering at the hands of the Soviet government." https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2022-04-19/memory-crash-politics-history-and-around-ukraine-1980s-2010s -- Maria Lipman * Foreign Affairs *
"Memory Crash was published in Ukrainian in 2018 and appeared in a well-received Russian edition the following year. The text was updated before its publication in English just weeks before the invasion in February 2022. It offers a snapshot of the scholarly debate taken moments before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Students of historical politics examine 'the use and abuse of the past for immediate political goals.' Kasianov has studied this phenomenon over decades and across Europe. The reference to 'impartiality' is characteristic. 'The historian's business requires time away from the noise', as he puts it in Memory Crash. That is how any larger perspective is won and his book begins by placing Ukraine's historical politics in a European context. Read this book as testimony to decades spent working for a tough-minded but sophisticated view of the past, in the interests of a more tolerant and pluralist future." http://review31.co.uk/essay/view/116/forbidden-topics-long-shadows -- Horatio Morpurgo * Review 31 *
"Eine zu starke Fixierung auf die Vergangenheit koenne zukunftige Fortschritte in seinem Land behindern, so der ukrainische Historiker Georgiy Kasianov. Mit seinem Buch Memory Crash prasentiert er die erste umfangreiche und empiriegesattigte Studie uber ukrainische Erinnerungskultur(en) und ihre Akteure. Kasianovs Expertise und seine umfangreiche kritische Analyse ukrainischer Erinnerungskulturen auf staatlicher und zivilgesellschaftlicher Ebene, wie sie vorher noch nie da war, machen das Buch zu einem Meilenstein im Feld der Memory Studies." https://te.ma/art/8u8vjf/kasianov-ukraine-history-memory-crash/ -- Hera Shokohi * te.ma *
"Kasianovs Monografie besticht durch methodische und argumentative klarheit. Der Vf. nimmt grosse Akteursgruppen in den Blick, um Diskurse als von Interessengruppen gemachte Narrative, die in spezifischen historischen und politischen Kontexten entstehen, zu entschlusseln. Seine Studie kann auch als Pladoyer gelesen werden, die regionalen Besonderheiten der Ukraine bei der Untersuchung von Erinnerungsdiskursen dezidierter zu untersuchen. Obwohl Geschichte in ganz Europa als politisches Instrument genutzt wird, dient Geschichtspolitik nur der Russlandischen Foederation als Basis und Argument fur Expansion, Aggression und Krieg." https://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=https%3A//www.zfo-online.de/portal/zfo/article/download/11496/11377&hl=hu&sa=X&d=8733072796556072501&ei=wxIJZr3VHNio6rQP95mt8Aw&scisig=AFWwaebtpKxjNntDBsLmZh6ql0B6&oi=scholaralrt&html=&pos=1&folt=kw -- Laura Eckl * Zeitschrift fur Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung *



Book Information
ISBN 9789633863800
Author Georgiy Kasianov
Format Hardback
Page Count 422
Imprint Central European University Press
Publisher Central European University Press
Weight(grams) 732g

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