CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Kysla, Iuliia |
|---|---|
| Title | The Politics of Memory in the Postwar UkrSSR (1941-1948): Fashioning the Myth of the "Great Patriotic War" |
| Summary | This work examines Soviet politics of memory in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and focuses on the regime’s undertakings toward mythologizing the Second World War. In particular, it explores origins and modification of the Soviet myth of the “Great Patriotic War” within the context of the postwar purification campaign in literature, the so-called Zhdanovshchyna. As the author shows, Zhdanov’s crackdown of 1946-8 in Ukraine, besides being attack against western influences and nationalism, had another implicit dimension – authorities’ drive for the unification of a memory of the WWII. In case studies, the author also investigates mechanisms of myth creation on the basis of two main components of the myth – liberation and all-people’s myths. The first one is analyzed in details on the basis of Oles` Honchar`s writings, while the formation of the latter is traced on materials of Poltava underground group and it leader Lialia Ubyyvovk. |
| Supervisor | Rieber, Alfred |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/kysla_iuliia.pdf |
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