Katyn- the Soviet massacre of over 21,000 Polish prisoners in
1940 - has come to be remembered as Stalin's emblematic mass
murder, an event obscured by one of the most extensive cover-ups in
history. Yet paradoxically, a majority of its victims perished far
from the forest in western Russia that gives the tragedy its name.
Their remains lie buried in killing fields throughout Russia,
Ukraine and, most likely, Belarus. Today their ghosts haunt the
cultural landscape of Eastern Europe.
This book traces the legacy of Katyn through the interconnected
memory cultures of seven countries: Belarus, Poland, Russia,
Ukraine, and the Baltic States. It explores the meaning of Katyn as
site and symbol, event and idea, fact and crypt. It shows how Katyn
both incites nationalist sentiments in Eastern Europe and fosters
an emerging cosmopolitan memory of Soviet terror. It also examines
the strange impact of the 2010 plane crash that claimed the lives
of Poland's leaders en route to Katyn.Drawing on novels and films,
debates and controversies, this book makes the case for a
transnational study of cultural memory and navigates a contested
past in a region that will define Europe's future.
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