Having re-read the various posts on Polly’s book, including her latest entry – which assembles comparative cases in order to highlight what was and wasn’t distinctive about Soviet memory of...
https://russianhistoryblog.org/2014/06/myth-memory-trauma-untidy-thoughts/
In his initial post, Denis Kozlov mentions a number of keywords – key, that is, to public discourse during the Khrushchev era as well as to Polly’s wide-ranging analysis of that discourse –...
https://russianhistoryblog.org/2014/05/myth-memory-trauma-coming-to-terms/
When reading Polly Jones’ stimulating book on Soviet memory of the Stalin era, I found myself thinking about two other works that helped establish the memory of collective trauma as a distinct ...
https://russianhistoryblog.org/2014/05/myth-memory-trauma-the-constant-gardner/