Stalinist Patriotism as Imperial Discourse: Reconciling the Ukrainian and Russian "Heroic Pasts," 1939-1945

Soviet patriotism in a comparative perspective: a passion for oxymora

“…Similar patterns of the partial ''rehabilitation'' and reinterpretation of the prerevolutionary past occurred in the national republics (Yekelchyk 2000;Yekelchyk 2002;Yekelchyk 2004). Serhy Yekelchyk demonstrated how the formation of patriotic discourse of a national character occurred in the Ukraine, the largest federal republic of the USSR.…”

Ukrainas postkommunistiska historia – fast i det förflutna

“…Ett exempel var Bohdan Chmelnytskyj, som på en och samma gång fick representera både kosackernas storhet och unionen med Ryssland vid Perejaslav 1654. Den nationella historien i Ukraina kom sådan att uppgå i en större sovjetisk historia, inte sällan med hjälp av intellektuella och andra elitgrupper i Ukraina (Yekelchyk 2002). Målet i denna historia var tydligt utstakat enligt den marxist-leninistiska ideologin och historiens aktörer var det arbetande folket som drevs av proletär internationalism.…”

Jewish response to the non-Jewish question: “Where were the Jews during the fighting?” 1941–5

“…Members of the various ethnically oriented intelligentsias followed the Russian model in an effort to create their own versions of Ukrainian, Belorussian, Kazakh, or Jewish heroism and martyrology. 53 However, starting in 1943, there was a noticeable narrowing of the framework of permitted expression relating to the identity of ethnic minorities. The restrictive methods were quite rarely public; they were basically confined to mid-level party officials (although the inspiration for this policy sometimes emanated directly from the top level of the Soviet leadership).…”