October 2012, Polity This price is valid for United States.
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the Soviet massacre of over 21,000 Polish prisoners in 1940 –
has come to be remembered as Stalin’s emblematic mass murder, an
event obscured by one of the most extensive cover-ups in
history. Yet paradoxically, a majority of its victims perished
far from the forest in western Russia that gives the tragedy its
name. Their remains lie buried in killing fields throughout
Russia, Ukraine and, most likely, Belarus. Today their ghosts
haunt the cultural landscape of Eastern Europe. This book traces
the legacy of Katyn through the interconnected memory cultures
of seven countries: Belarus, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and the
Baltic States. It explores the meaning of Katyn as site and
symbol, event and idea, fact and crypt. It shows how Katyn both
incites nationalist sentiments in Eastern Europe and fosters an
emerging cosmopolitan memory of Soviet terror. It also examines
the strange impact of the