Ukraine is the largest new state to appear on the map of Europe
this century. With a population of more than 50 million people and
a territory larger than France, the new Ukrainian state faces many
challenges, not least of which is to forge a national identity
after years of Soviet rule. Burden of Dreams examines daily life in
Soviet and post-Soviet Ukraine, showing why Ukrainian nationalism
and its program of "Ukrainianization" have appealed to the largest
Russian diaspora and to millions of Russified Ukrainians.
Focusing on schools, festivals, commemorative ceremonies, and
monuments, Catherine Wanner shows how Soviet-created narratives
have been recast to reflect a post-Soviet Ukrainocentric
perspective. In the process, we see how new histories are
understood and acted upon. This reveals regional cleavages and the
resilience of cultural differences produced by the Soviet regime.
For some people, the system they criticized yesterday is the one
they long for today.
The struggle to remember or to forget is particularly intense in
post-Soviet societies. Burden of Dreams is especially valuable for
showing us the monumental task facing a Ukrainian state that is
seeking to craft cultural solidarity after years of Soviet
rule.
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