Trophies of War and Empire: The Archival Heritage of Ukraine, World War II, and the International Politics of Restitution

ISBN-13: 9780916458768 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 800 str.

Patricia Kennedy Grimsted; Charles Kecskemeti

Opis

The collapse of the Soviet Union and the 50th anniversary of the end of the World War II have brought attention to the displaced cultural and archival heritage of many nations. The situation of Ukraine provides a striking example of the many international problems involved in questions of restitution. Patricia Kennedy Grimsted considers (among many topics) the problems of defining the archival heritage of Ukraine vis-?-vis Russia; international precedents for post-imperial archival devolution's and post-war restitution; intentional Soviet archival destruction in 1941; the Ukrainian component of Soviet library and rival trophies in Moscow and Kyiv; Russia's bitterly disputed 1998 law nationalising cultural trophies, and post-1991 Ukrainian restitution policies.