Vitalii Ogiienko, "The Holodomor and the Origins of the Soviet Man: Reading the Testimony of Anastasia Lysyvets" (Ibidem Press, 2022)
Anastasia Lysyvets\u2019s memoir\xa0Tell us about a happy life \u2026 (Skazhy pro shchaslyve zhyttia \u2026), published in Kyiv in 2009 and now available for the first time in an English translation, is one of the most powerful testimonies of a victim of the Holodomor, the Great Famine of 1932\u20131933 in Ukraine. This mass starvation was organized by the Soviet regime and resulted in millions of deaths by hunger. The simple village teacher Lysyvets\u2019s testimony, written during the 1970s and 1980s without hope of publication, depicts pain, death, and hunger as few others do.\nIn\xa0The Holodomor and the Origins of the Soviet Man: Reading the Testimony of Anastasia Lysyvets\xa0(Ibidem Press, 2022), Vitalii Ogiienko explains how traumatic traces found their way into Lysyvets\u2019s text. He proposes that the reader develops an alternative method of reading that replaces the usual ways of imagining with a focus on the body and that detects mechanisms of transmission of the original Holodomor experience through generations.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/genocide-studies