Burden of Dreams: History and Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine

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Penn State Press, 01/11/2010
 

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Índice

Nationality in Soviet and PostSoviet Ukraine
3
The Rise of Nationalist Opposition
23
On Being Soviet
49
Sites of Nationalizing
77
Educational Reform
79
Festivals
121
Commemoration and the State Calendar
141
Urban Landscape
171
Afterword
201
Notes
209
References
229
Index
253
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Página 49 - Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.
Página 214 - L'oubli, et je dirai meme l'erreur historique, sont un facteur essentiel de la creation d'une nation, et c'est ainsi que le progres des etudes historiques est souvent pour la nationalite un danger.
Página 225 - Socialist realism is the basic method of Soviet literature and literary criticism. It demands of the artist the truthful, historically concrete representation of reality in its revolutionary development. Moreover, the truthfulness and historical concreteness of the artistic representation of reality must be linked with the task of ideological transformation and education of workers in the spirit of socialism.
Página 128 - During the third song of the opening ceremony of the festival, as the feeling of solidarity and euphoria accelerated, most of the audience poured down from the bleachers onto the soccer field to dance. They broke the traditional segregation of performer and audience and joined hands or elbows in a human chain, encircling the singers on stage and each other. Some formed spinning circles of twenty or more people all holding hands. Others formed swirling chains connected by interlocking hands and traveled...
Página 133 - ... are unique to Ukrainian and not found in Russian were represented by numerals, adding a sense of displacement and foreignness to finding things Ukrainian in eastern Ukraine. It became undeniably clear at this festival that although Ukrainian by nationality, Natasha was socialized in Russified Kievan society and this is where her allegiances lay. It didn't take long before she felt uncomfortable. During the third sound system collapse, when the Cossack horsemen raced around the stadium and the...
Página 166 - Identities and memories are not things we think about, but things we think with. As such they have no existence beyond our politics, our social relations, and our histories.
Página 31 - An event is not necessarily best understood as the exemplification of an extant symbolic or social order. Events may equally be evidence of the ongoing dismantling of structures or of attempts to create new ones.

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