The Politics of Memory in Ukraine in 2014 Removal of the Soviet Cultural Legacy and Euromaidan Commemorations
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2016
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Liubarets, Andriy
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Abstract
The year 2014 brought great social and cultural disruptions to Ukraine. Euromaidan, the
annexation of Crimea, and war in the Donbas led to significant social and political changes,
with crucial transformations in Ukrainian historical memory playing an important role in them.
Public appeals to history accompanied most political processes in 2014 and were always used for
self-legitimization by both sides of the conflict. Changes in attitude towards the Soviet cultural
and historical legacy and the formation of a new memory about Euromaidan (“the invention of
tradition”) might be considered as a major shift in this field. The aim of this article is to observe
and analyze major trends of the politics of memory in Ukraine in 2014 and early 2015.
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Politics of memory, historical memory, cultural legacy, de-Sovietization, commemorations
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Liubarets Andriy. The Politics of Memory in Ukraine in 2014 Removal of the Soviet Cultural Legacy and Euromaidan Commemorations : [electronic resource] / Andriy Liubarets // Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal. - 2016. - No. 3. - P. 197-214.