The Holodomor and the Origins of the Soviet Man - Reading the Testimony of Anastasia Lysyvets (Paperback)

Anastasia Lysyvets's memoir Tell us about a happy life... (Skazhy pro shchaslyve zhyttia...), published in Kyiv in 2009 and now available for the first time in an English translation, is one of the most powerful testimonies of a victim of the Holodomor, the Great Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine. This mass starvation was organized by the Soviet regime and resulted in millions of deaths by hunger. The simple village teacher Lysyvets's testimony, written during the 1970s and 1980s without hope of publication, depicts pain, death, and hunger as few others do. In his commentary, Vitalii Ogiienko explains how traumatic traces found their way into Lysyvets's text. He proposes that the reader develops an alternative method of reading that replaces the usual ways of imagining with a focus on the body and that detects mechanisms of transmission of the original Holodomor experience through generations.

General

Imprint:	Ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild U Christian Schon
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Ukrainian Voices
Release date:	March 2022
Editors:	Vitalii Ogiienko
Foreword by:	Nataliia Bilotserkviets • Serhy Yekelchyk
Translators:	Alexander John Motyl • Alla Parkhomenko
Dimensions:	21 x 15mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	180
ISBN-13:	978-3-8382-1616-4
Categories:	Books
LSN:	3-8382-1616-4
Barcode:	9783838216164

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