Conveying Soviet famines
Year: 2024

This chapter explores to what extent the memory of the Leningrad Blockade and the Holodomor as mass atrocities was instrumentalised in Soviet history textbooks for political purposes and identity formation throughout the Soviet period between 1951 and 1991. Based on textbook analysis, this chapter explores if and how the textbooks convey hunger or famine narratives and if not, how events surrounding these famines are addressed and possibly used for political purposes. While both famines were man