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ENG: In the spring of 1944, Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars, a small Sunni Muslim nation, from their ancestral homeland on the Black Sea peninsula. The gravity of this event, which ultimately claimed the lives of tens of thousands of victims, was shrouded in secrecy after the Second World War. What broke the silence in Soviet Russia, Soviet Ukraine, and the Republic of Turkey were works of literature. These texts of poetry and prose some passed hand-to-hand underground, others published to controversy shocked the conscience of readers and sought to move them to action. Blood of Others presents these works as vivid evidence of literature's power to lift our moral horizons. In bringing these remarkable texts to light and contextualizing them among Russian, Turkish, and Ukrainian representations of Crimea from 1783, Rory Finnin provides an innovative cultural history of the Black Sea region. He reveals how a """"poetics of solidarity"""" promoted empathy and support for an oppressed people through complex provocations of guilt rather than shame. Forging new roads between Slavic studies and Middle Eastern studies, Blood of Others is a compelling and timely exploration of the ideas and identities coursing between Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine three countries determining the fate of a volatile and geopolitically pivotal part of our world. UA: 1944 - - . , , . - , . - , - . . , 1783 , . , , . , - , , - , .

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ENG: Rory Finnin is Professor of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Cambridge, where he launched the Cambridge Ukrainian Studies programme in 2008. He is a Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge. His primary research interest is the interplay of culture and identity in Ukraine. He also focuses on the history of colonialism in Crimea and studies Crimean Tatar literature and culture. His broader research interests include nationalism studies, solidarity studies, and cultural memory in the region of the Black Sea. Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity won eight international book awards, earning distinctions in the fields of Ukrainian Studies, European Studies, Slavic Studies, nationalism studies, and genocide studies. Finnin is also winner of an Outstanding Lecturer award from Cambridge students in 2015. His first students were in a village school in central Ukraine, where he worked as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer in 199597. UA: - , 2008 Cambridge Ukrainian Studies. . - . , . , ' . Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity , , , . , 2015 . , 19951997 .

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