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Myth, Memory, Trauma: A Blog Conversation
For this edition of Russian History Blog’s “Blog Conversations,” we have gathered a distinguished group of scholars to discuss Polly Jones’s new book, Myth, Memory, Trauma: Rethinking the Stalinist...
View ArticleMyth, Memory, Trauma – Narratives and Complications
It is an honor to be asked to discuss Polly Jones’s Myth, Memory, Trauma: Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953-1970. This masterful analysis of the response to de-Stalinization is...
View ArticleMyth, Memory, Trauma: On Rethinking versus Repackaging the Past
Let me begin by thanking Steve Barnes for inviting me to comment on Polly’s book. I am glad that this blog provides such a valuable opportunity for informative discussions of new scholarship in our...
View ArticleMyth, Memory, Trauma – The Stalinist Past and the Post-Soviet Present
I should start by admitting that I read an early version of Polly’s book proposal and manuscript a few summers back while sitting under an umbrella on a Lake Michigan beach. I was enthusiastic then...
View ArticleMyth, Memory, Trauma – The Constant Gardner
When reading Polly Jones’ stimulating book on Soviet memory of the Stalin era, I found myself thinking about two other works that helped establish the memory of collective trauma as a distinct field of...
View ArticleMyth Memory Trauma–Narratives and Subjects
I would like to offer heartfelt thanks to all the participants for taking the time to read my book so carefully and to comment so insightfully. It is a cliché, but in this case a true one, that all of...
View ArticleMyth, Memory, Trauma – Soviet Exceptionality?
Like Ben, I’m inclined to think that, comparatively speaking, the “memory work” of the 1950s and 60s in the Soviet Union was distinctive. I’m struck, however, not by the constancy of the gardener,...
View ArticleMyth, Memory, Trauma – Coming to Terms
In his initial post, Denis Kozlov mentions a number of keywords – key, that is, to public discourse during the Khrushchev era as well as to Polly’s wide-ranging analysis of that discourse – and calls...
View ArticleMyth Memory Trauma–What De-Stalinization was not
De-Stalinization has often been defined in terms of what it was not: not as complete and aggressive as de-Nazification (though Stephen Cohen has argued that the Soviet Union came close to its own...
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