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“Building National Identity through Cultural Consumption: Religion, Language, History and Problems of Cultural Identification in Ukraine from the Late Russian Empire to Soviet Union."
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I am trying to organize a panel for AAASS 38th National Convention (Washington, DC, November 16-19, 2006) with a title “Building National Identity through Cultural Consumption: Religion, Language, History and Problems of Cultural Identification in Ukraine from the Late Russian Empire to Soviet Union.” This panel deals with problems of building national identity through cultural consumption among different social groups in different regions of modern Ukraine from the period of the late Russian Empire to the times of Brezhnev. The papers of this panel will focus on how issues of religion, national history and ruling ideologies interacted in a process of cultural consumption and contributed to various forms of cultural identification, which eventually became elements of modern Ukrainian national identity. As far I have my own paper with a title “Building the Ukrainian Identity through Cultural Consumption in the “Closed” City of Soviet Ukraine: Dnipropetrovsk KGB Files and “Transgressions” of Everyday Life during Late Socialism, 1959-1985,” which is about cultural consumption and everyday life in a city of Dnipropetrovsk, which was closed by KGB for foreign visitors in 1959 because this Ukrainian city became a location for one of the biggest missile factory in the USSR. Because of its “closed” existence, Dnipropetrovsk became a unique Soviet social and cultural laboratory in which various patterns of late socialism, collided with the new Western cultural influences, Ukrainian nationalism and popular religiosity. Using archival KGB documents, periodicals, and personal interviews as its historical sources, this paper explains why Dnipropetrovsk became a starting point for a political career of Soviet and post-Soviet politicians (e.g. Kuchma and Timoshenko), including the first “Ukrainian nationalists of late socialism” (such as Ivan Sokul’sky).
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Dr. Sergei I. Zhuk
Department of History
Ball State University
Muncie, IN 47306
Phone:765-285-8735
Fax: 765-285-5612
Email: sizhuk@bsu.edu
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