Sklokina I. Official Soviet Politics of Memory of Nazi Occupation of Ukraine (the case of Kharkiv region), 1943-1985.

This dissertation is the first attempt of complex research of the official Soviet politics of memory of Nazi occupation (case-study of Kharkiv region). This work outlines the participation of different actors, among them Communist party and soviet organs, cultural institutions, communities and particular activists, in the making of official politics of memory in Kharkiv region. The historical context of this process, including changes in socio-political and cultural spheres, in the attitudes towards different groups of formerly occupied population, is an important part of this study. Politics of memory is presented as materialized in particular cultural forms, such as publicist literature and fiction, commemorative rituals, paying homage to the dead, recreation of the cityscape, and museum work. Most attention is paid to such aspects of the Nazi occupation as Holocaust, the fate of the Soviet prisoners of war and civil population, collaboration, and Resistance movement as presented in public in different ways during the postwar Stalinism (1943-1953), liberalization of the socio-political sphere (1954-1964) and stagnation period (1965-1985).