Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction 3
Empire and Its Nations 3
Communities of Memory 6
Stalin's Ukrainians 9
1 Soviet National Patriots 13
Between Class and Nation 15
Remembering the Nation 19
The Great Ukrainian People 24
2 The Unbreakable Union 33
The Unifying Past 34
Ranking Friends and Brothers 39
Ukraine Reunited 47
3 Reinventing Ideological Orthodoxy 53
Confusing Signals from Above 54
The Ukrainian Zhdanovshchina 62
Fashioning an Acceptable Past 66
4 The Unfinished Crusade of 1947 72
The Enforced Dialogue 73
The Attack on Historians 77
The Campaign's Nationalist Echoes 84
5 Writing A 'Stalinist History of Ukraine' 88
The Quest for a New Memory 89
Defining the Ancient Past 93
Remembering the Empire 96
Narrating the Nation 102
6 Defining the National Heritage 108
The Ukrainian Classics 109
In the House of History 114
Sites of Remembrance 120
7 Empire and Nation in the Artistic Imagination 129
Writers' Licence 130
Filmmakers and Artists Imagine the Past 137
History at the Opera 145
Epilogue 153
The Last Stalinist Festival 154
After Stalin 159
Notes 163
Bibliography 199
Index 217
