The Khatyn Massacre in Belorussia: A Historical Controversy Revisited

Rudling, Per Anders

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“…In 1960, the Piskarevo Memorial Complex was opened in Leningrad devoted to “The Victims of Siege during the Great Patriotic War.” In 1965, a large memorial “To the Victims of Fascism” was opened in Ukrainian Donetsk. In 1969, the Memorial Complex Khatyn’ was completed in Belarus, on the site of a former village where the Slavic population was fully exterminated by the Nazis (Rudling 2012; Kotljarchuk 2013). A focus on civilian victims created opportunities for including the memory of Roma and Jewish genocides into the major memory narrative of the Nazi occupation.…”

Section: Politics Of Liberalisation and New Trends In Memory Narrativ...mentioning

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Babi Yar and the Nazi Genocide of Roma: Memory Narratives and Memory Practices in Ukraine

Kotljarchuk

2021

Nationalities Papers

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Thousands of Roma were killed in Ukraine by the Nazis and auxiliary police on the spot. There are more than 50,000 Roma in today’s Ukraine, represented by second and third generation decendants of the genocide survivors. The discussion on Roma identity cannot be isolated from the memory of the genocide, which makes the struggle over the past a reflexive landmark that mobilizes the Roma movement. About twenty Roma genocide memorials have been erected in Ukraine during last decade, and in 2016 the national memorial of the Roma genocide was opened in Babi Yar. However, scholars do not have a clear picture of memory narratives and memory practices of the Roma genocide in Ukraine. A comprehensive analysis of the contemporary situation is not possible without an examination of the history and memory of the Roma genocide before 1991.

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Section: Politics Of Liberalisation and New Trends In Memory Narrativ...mentioning

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Babi Yar and the Nazi Genocide of Roma: Memory Narratives and Memory Practices in Ukraine

Kotljarchuk

2021

Nationalities Papers

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“…The memorial became an integral part of the Great Patriotic War narrative during the Soviet period in Belarus. The memorial complex has amplified the memory narratives of partisan resistance during the war and heroic victimhood of civilians (Lewis, 2015; Rudling, 2012).…”

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“…It has become both a commemoration honouring the victims of the Chernobyl disaster and a public mobilisation practice which has been used to express political grievances against Lukashenka's authoritarian rule. (Lewis, 2015;Rudling, 2012).…”

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The politics of state celebrations in Belarus

Rohava

2020

Nations and Nationalism

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National celebrations have been defined as manifestations of collective identities that glorify the nation and strengthen the national community. However, the magnitude and design of celebrations in autocratic states indicate a different ideational function that these symbolic events play in an autocratic political system. Autocratic elites have the administrative capacity to distort everyday routines and impose ideological principles of how people participate in state celebrations. How citizens engage in official celebratory practices in an authoritarian political context formulates a valuable contribution to the conceptualisation of national celebrations. Drawing on focus group discussions and ethnographic observations, I investigate how people negotiate meanings of celebratory and commemorative practices in the context of autocratic Belarus. I discuss how volatile the symbolic politics is when the invention of new symbolic traditions or the reinvention of old narratives does not appeal to all social groups and lacks authenticity.

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“…To help promote this vision of Belarus's historical and mnemonic Sonderweg, the state has carried out costly refurbishments of Soviet-era monuments, such as the Khatyn Memorial Complex (opened 1969, renovated 2006; for further discussion see Rudling 2012 andLewis 2015), and it has also added new sites of memory, such as the Stalin Line museum (opened 2005, discussed in Chap. 8; Marples 2012).…”

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Introduction: War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus

Fedor

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Zhurzhenko

2017

Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies

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This introductory essay begins with a discussion of World War II memory in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, in light of the recent and ongoing war in Ukraine. It outlines the main contours of the interplay between “memory wars” and real war, and the important “post-Crimean” qualitative shift in local memory cultures in this connection. Next, the essay sketches out the specifics of the war memory landscapes of the region, and then of each of the three individual countries, before moving on to introduce the key organizing themes and findings of the book.

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The Khatyn Massacre in Belorussia: A Historical Controversy Revisited

Cited by 17 publications

References 15 publications

Babi Yar and the Nazi Genocide of Roma: Memory Narratives and Memory Practices in Ukraine

Babi Yar and the Nazi Genocide of Roma: Memory Narratives and Memory Practices in Ukraine

The politics of state celebrations in Belarus

Introduction: War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus

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