Remembering Katyn

Alexander Etkind is Reader in Russian Literature and Cultural History at the University of Cambridge.Rory Finnin is Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies and Chair of the Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Cambridge.Uilleam Blacker is MAW Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Cambridge.Julie Fedor is MAW Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Cambridge.Simon Lewis is a PHD candidate at the University of Cambridge.Maria Mälksoo is Senior Researcher at the University of Tartu, Estonia.Matilda Mroz is Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture at the University of Greenwich.

"An informative survey of the debates occaasioned by the crimes of early 1940."Times Literary Supplement "A fine example of international research collaboration."Russian Review "An important corrective to most recent studies of imperialism, which rarely transcend the national optic."Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research "This book, a rare example of collective scholarship, is more than path-breaking. It manages to move around the furniture in an entire field, that of memory studies, one that is shared by literary scholars, linguists, anthropologists, psychologists, historians and others. This exploration of memory events is essential reading for all students in the social sciences and the humanities."Jay Winter, Yale University"In an exemplary way, this multi-disciplinary in depth case study reconstructs the symbolic legacy of Katyn as a transnational trauma. The book is a unique collective achievement with genuine potential to integrate this key event into European memory."Aleida Assmann, University of Konstanz"The crime of Katyn has bedeviled European memory for decades, and only an ambitious pan-European effort such as this one can reveal every angle of the problem – and some of the solutions."Timothy Snyder, Yale University

• ContentsList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsList of FiguresA Note on Translation and TransliterationMapTimelineIntroduction: Remembering KatynChapter One: Katyn in PolandChapter Two: Katyn in KatynChapter Three: Katyn in UkraineChapter Four: Katyn in BelarusChapter Five: Katyn in the Baltic StatesChapter Six: Katyn in RussiaChapter Seven: Katyn in KatynCoda: ‘Katyn-2'Bibliography