Burden of the Past

Anna Wylegała 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.' Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper is Associate Professor at the Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw. She is author of Transmisja pamięci. Działacze sfery pamięci i przekaz o Kresach Wschodnich we współczesnej Polsce (The transmission of memory: memory activists and narratives of former Eastern Borderlands in contemporary Poland).

"The Burden of the Past is a milestone of the scholarship about Eastern European politics of memory and a compelling plea for the need to further de-Westernize the field of memory studies."—Wulf Kansteiner"This book is an important stepstone in both memory and Ukrainian studies. By posting new questions and introducing new categories of analysis, it makes us to rethink us what is Ukraine and how its troublesome past can be overcome for a better future."—Yaroslav Hrytsak, Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv"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, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy,Ukraine, Europe - Asia Studies"This volume, edited by Anna Wylegała and Małgorzata Głowacka-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 Wylegała and Małgorzata Głowacka-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, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland, Harvard Ukranian Studies

• Introduction / Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper and Anna WylegałaPart I: The Memory of Holodomor1. Idle, Drunk and Good-for-Nothing. Cultural Memory of the Rank-and-File Perpetrators of the 1932-1933 Famine in Ukraine / Daria Mattingly2. The lieux de mémoire of the Holodomor in the Cultural Landscape of Modern Ukraine / Wiktoria Kudela-ŚwiątekPart II: World War II in the Ukrainian Memory3. The War of Memory in Times of War: 9th of May Celebrations in Kyiv in 2014–2015 / Tetiana Pastushenko4. (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 Canon5. Symon Petliura, the Ukrainian People's Republic, and National Commemoration in Contemporary Ukraine / Matthew D. Pauly6. 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 Chebotariova9. Extermination of the Roma in Transnistria during the World War II: Construction of the Roma Collective Memory / Anna Abakunova10. Poland and Poles in the Collective Memory of Galician Ukrainians / Anna Wylegała Part V: History and Politics in a Post-Soviet State: Ukraine, Russia and Independence11. Ukraine between the EU and Russia since 1991: Does it have to be a Battlefield of Memories? / Tomasz Stryjek12. A Desired but Unexpected State. The 90s in the Memory and Perception of Ukrainians in the Twenty-First Century / Joanna Konieczna-Sałamatin