Julie Fedor is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Melbourne.

Andreas Umland is Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for European Security in the Institute of International Relations at Prague, Principal Researcher of the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation at Kyiv, and General Editor of the ibidem-Verlag book series “Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society”.

Julie Fedor is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Melbourne.

Fedor’s book has filled a historiographical gap […] The author gives us the keys necessary for decoding these […] discourses and, beyond that, the worldview of these men, an indispensable method for gaining knowledge of the Soviet past but also, in Putin’s Russia, for understanding the Russian present. -- Andrei Kozovoi, University of Lille 3, France; Cahiers du monde russe, 52: 4 (2012)

Extremely informative and detailed ... an excellent book, well researched, cogently argued, and articulately presented … with intelligence and wit David Gillespie, University of Bath, UK, The Russian Review 72:1 (2013)

The motivations for the Pussy Riot singers' trial and conviction in 2012 are all exposed in this book ... written before the actual event Marie Mendras, Sciences Po, France; International Affairs 89: 1 (2013)

attentive [and] thoughtful ... Many of the themes touched upon in the book open up interesting research perspectives -- Andriy Portnov, Neprikosnovennyi zapas, Russia, 81:1 (2012)

This book, a rare example of collective scholarship, is more than path-breaking. It manages to move around the furniture in an entire field, that of memory studies, one that is shared by literary scholars, linguists, anthropologists, psychologists, historians and others. This exploration of memory events is essential reading for all students in the social sciences and humanities. Jay Winter, Yale University

In an exemplary way, this multi-disciplinary in-depth case study reconstructs the symbolic legacy of Katyn as a transnational trauma. The book is a unique collective achievement with genuine potential to integrate this key event into European memory Aleida Assmann, University of Konstanz

The crime of Katyn has bedeviled European memory for decades, and only an ambitious pan-European effort such as this one can reveal every angle of the problem - and some of the solutions. Timothy Snyder, Yale University

an excellent and innovative study that charts out an extraordinarily complex subject with sensitivity and sophistication Kevin M. F. Platt, University of Pennsylvania, in Slavic Review, 73:1 (Spring 2014)