The Burden of the Past

This book is a welcome addition to a growing body of scholarly literature on Ukrainian identity and memory politics. . . . The two editors can be commended for having produced an excellent book, an important addition to ongoing discussions of Ukrainian memory politics in Ukraine. -- Taras Kuzio * Europe - Asia Studies * This volume, edited by Anna Wylegaa and Magorzata Gowacka-Grajper, presents a remarkably consistent scholarly concept and a clear civic, or even political, agenda. . . . Both scholars of Ukraine and memory studies specialists will enjoy this solid and thought-provoking volume, which it is to be hoped will succeed in influencing ongoing conversations in Ukraine on such important topics for the future of the country. -- Alessandro Achilli, Monash University * Modern Language Review * Using an interdisciplinary approach, Anna Wylegaa and Magorzata Gowacka-Grajper have succeeded in assembling a well-selected array of fieldwork and comparative research that explores hidden and forbidden memory of Ukraine's recent past. They have also effectively questioned how political as well as sociocultural and religious markers of today's identities polarize Ukrainian society given the lack of a common frame of reference and unhealed wounds. . . . It is a milestone collection of memories and testimonies of those who still remember and those who have forgotten; of those who continue to look critically at the present without forgetting their past. -- Francesco Trupia * Harvard Ukranian Studies *

Anna Wylegaa is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. She is author of Displacement and Memory: Remembering and Forgetting in Ukrainian Galicia and Polish 'Recovered Lands.' Magorzata Gowacka-Grajper is Associate Professor at the Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw. She is author of Transmisja pamici. Dziaacze sfery pamici i przekaz o Kresach Wschodnich we wspczesnej Polsce (The transmission of memory: memory activists and narratives of former Eastern Borderlands in contemporary Poland).

Introduction / Magorzata Gowacka-Grajper and Anna Wylegaa Part I: The Memory of Holodomor 1. Idle, Drunk and Good-for-Nothing. Cultural Memory of the Rank-and-File Perpetrators of the 1932-1933 Famine in Ukraine / Daria Mattingly 2. The lieux de mmoire of the Holodomor in the Cultural Landscape of Modern Ukraine / Wiktoria Kudela-witek Part II: World War II in the Ukrainian Memory 3. The War of Memory in Times of War: 9th of May Celebrations in Kyiv in 20142015 / Tetiana Pastushenko 4. (In)different Memory: The World War II in the Memory of the Last War Generation in Ukraine / Mykola Borovyk Part III: Heroes or Traitors: Creating Heroic Canon 5. Symon Petliura, the Ukrainian People's Republic, and National Commemoration in Contemporary Ukraine / Matthew D. Pauly 6. Glory to the Heroes? Gender, Nationalism and Memory / Olesya Khromeychuk Part IV: Traces of the Lost Multiethnicity and Memory of the Ethnic Cleansing 7. Memory, Monuments and the Project of Nationalization in Ukraine. The Case of Chernivtsi / Karolina Koziura 8. Collective Memory of the Holocaust in Post-Soviet Ukraine / Anna Chebotariova 9. Extermination of the Roma in Transnistria during the World War II: Construction of the Roma Collective Memory / Anna Abakunova 10. Poland and Poles in the Collective Memory of Galician Ukrainians / Anna Wylegaa Part V: History and Politics in a Post-Soviet State: Ukraine, Russia and Independence 11. Ukraine between the EU and Russia since 1991: Does it have to be a Battlefield of Memories? / Tomasz Stryjek 12. A Desired but Unexpected State. The 90s in the Memory and Perception of Ukrainians in the Twenty-First Century / Joanna Konieczna-Saamatin