Myth, Memory, Trauma
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Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953-70
Polly Jones
"What a book! Moving deftly between history and literary scholarship, Polly Jones shows how Stalin’s ghost continued to haunt Soviet society after 1953. Prodigiously researched and beautifully written, Myth, Memory, Trauma is bound to become the standard work on the Stalin cult’s long afterlife." —Jan Plamper, author of The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power (YUP, 2012)
"Jones’ excellent, nuanced, and empirically-rich book requires us to re-think, in important and surprising ways, our understandings of de-Stalinization, of the nature of the Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras, of the relationship between “official” and “popular” memory, and of Soviet exceptionalism." - Anne Gorsuch, author of All This Is Your World: Soviet Tourism at Home and Abroad (Oxford 2012)
Publication Date: February 23, 2016