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Author Kasianov, Georgiy

Title Memory Crash Politics of History in and Around Ukraine, 1980s-2010s
Published Budapest : Central European University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (424 p.)
Series Historical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia Ser
Historical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia Ser
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- Part I Concepts and Contexts -- Chapter 1 Notions and Definitions -- Chapter 2 Contexts -- Part II Actors -- Chapter 3 State Institutions -- Chapter 4 Non-governmental Organizations -- Chapter 5 Historians -- Part III Practices -- Chapter 6 Historical Politics: An Overview -- Chapter 7 Spaces of Memory -- Chapter 8 Historical Politics: Beyond Borders -- Conclusions -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary This account of historical politics in Ukraine, framed in a broader European context, shows how social, political, and cultural groups have used and misused the past from the final years of the Soviet Union to 2020. Georgiy Kasianov details practices relating to history and memory by a variety of actors, including state institutions, non-governmental organizations, political parties, historians, and local governments. He identifies the main political purposes of these practices in the construction of nation and identity, struggles for power, warfare, and international relations. Kasianov considers the Ukrainian case in the context of a global increase in the politics of history and memory, with particular emphasis on a distinctive East-European variety. He pays special attention to the use and abuse of history in relations between Ukraine, Russia, and Poland
Analysis East and West, Identity, International relations, Media, Museums, Nationalism, Postcommunism
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject History.
History
history (discipline)
History / Europe / Eastern.
History / Europe / Poland.
History / Russia & The Former Soviet Union.
History
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789633863817
9633863813